Discovery Awaits the Mind That Pursues It
When I first started reading and thinking about how to actively, meaningfully, and systematically foster the frequency and pace of discovery in my own work I was of two minds. In psychology there is a line of thought which compares a child with a scientist, albeit with different degrees…
For a long time, I’ve been drawn to the idea of a “spark.” I know where this began. My long-time love and fascination with the Walt Disney World character Figment, as in “a figment of your imagination”. Only in the Disney story, a man by the name of Dreamfinder…
In my first-round literature search on what is scientific discovery, which yielded about thirty items, there were many well-known items like Thomas Kuhn’s ever-recycled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I culled that to a first reading list of twelve, with one goal in mind: compile definitions of what constitutes…
I have in mind a way to foster cross-pollination and more interdisciplinary interaction among the sciences (both physical and social). Initially, I had a hunch that such cross-pollination might be the key to my own discovery efforts as well as to that of others. This is a little bit…