From:
Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>
Date:
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 06:26:44 -0400
Subject:
Wu Li
On the creative process: from The Dancing Wu Li Masters, by Gary Zukav.
"The importance of nonsense can hardly be overstated. The more clearly
we experience something as "nonsense", the more clearly we are
experiencing the boundaries of our own self-imposed cognitive
structures. "Nonsense" is that which does not fit into the prearranged
patterns which we have superimposed on reality..... True artists and
true physicists know that nonsense is only that which, viewed from our
present point of view, is unintelligible.... Most [scientists] spend
their professional lives following well established lines of thought.
Those who establish the established lines of thought, however, are
those who do not fear to venture boldly into nonsense, into that which
any fool could have told them is clearly not so. This is the mark of
the creative mind; in fact, this is the creative process."
Norman Watts, Ph. D.
National Institutes of Health
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Bethesda, MD 20892-8025
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