Creative research
APR 01, 1949
Why confine support of scientific research to projects? The author, in what he calls “random thoughts on creative research,” suggests that a few individuals capable of creative scientific work should themselves be supported for what they might do.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066463
It is a truism to state that progress in science depends upon the entire range of research, from the hypothetical extreme of observing and collecting facts to the equally hypothetical extreme of boldly running far ahead into the realm of pure speculation and intuition, thus giving spur to search for new facts. Nevertheless, it is often the case that a disproportionate weighting is accorded to research near the first extreme because of its easily tangible results.
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Roman Smoluchowski, Carnegie Institute of Technology.
© 1949 American Institute of Physics
