There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.
Jacob BronowskiScience is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.
Jacob BronowskiA man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.
Jacob Bronowski