Brilliant Innovation Taken For Granted
"The solutions of problems are not "invented" or "deduced" they are "found";
they "occur". Because post factum the previously separate mental fields merge
into one and the jagged bisociative act is smoothed out into a now continuous
associative flow, all revolutionary innovations appear after a while as trivial
and obvious, and we marvel less at the discovery itsef, than at the apparently
abysmal stupidity of the mental stage preceding it..."
Arthur Koestler, "Insight and Outlook", New York: Macmillan, 1949.
There Are Revolutions
"A new science arises out of one that has reached a dead end.
Often a revolution has an interdisciplinary character-its central
discoveries often come from people straying outside the normal bounds of
their specialties. The problems that obsess these theorists are not
recognized as legitimate lines of inquiry."
James Glick, "Chaos", Penguin, 1987.