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Sure, but if I could turn the societal dial a few clicks toward critical thinking vs day dreaming, I'd do it. The unquestionable success of the Scientific Meth
by crusso 13y ago
Sure, but if I could turn the societal dial a few clicks toward critical thinking vs day dreaming, I'd do it.
The unquestionable success of the Scientific Method has shown that careful analysis and requirement of experimental proof far outstrip bumbling about with our own natural human level of random thoughts that we label "creativity".
- harryh 13y agoI dunno. Maybe. But then I look around and see more need for creativity now than ever. Technology is changing faster than ever and that's impacting society in ways previously only speculated about. To me that means there's a lot of opportunity out there waiting to be captured by people crazy enough to do a little dreaming. Ideas are delicate things.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoCreativity and critical thinking aren't opposite ends of the same scale, in many ways they are orthogonal. Similarly, critical thinking and blind pessimism aren't the same thing, though many people mistake them to be.
- jamesrcole 13y agoThe scientific method is about testing ideas. Generating ideas another matter. Innovation often requires ideas that sound 'crazy' (because they don't fit with established ideas).