PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS
Science is devoted to puzzle solving, not problem solving. We are conditioned to think of science as solving enormously complex problems. We romanticize about Salk or Madame Curie heroically making life better for all...
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SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION
Stanislaw Ulam, speaking in Los Alamos in 1944. “I found out that the main ability to have was a visual, and also an almost tactile, way to imagine the physical situation, rather than a...
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