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Quotes from Letters to a Young Scientist — E. O. Wilson

1929–2021 United States

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Much of good science — and perhaps all of great science — has its roots in fantasy.

Letters to a Young Scientist (2013)

To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

Letters to a Young Scientist (2013)

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.

Letters to a Young Scientist (2013)

Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

Letters to a Young Scientist (2013)

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

Letters to a Young Scientist (2013)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: E. O. Wilson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.