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Thinking outside the box is the key to be a successful scientist or philosopher

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Thinking outside the box  is about embracing the mental state of not knowing instead of being addicted to knowing.

Did Newton know about gravity before he 'got it' when the apple fell down onto him? Hell no, he was first in a state of not-knowing.

Was Einstein addicted to 'knowing things' (= clinging to beliefs to make sense of the chaotic world) before he 'invented'/'realized' the (theory of) relativity of time & space? 

Hell fucking no. Einstein (and Niels Bohr and other great mystics) were  curious and open-minded in extreme ways that most people can only dream of.

Einstein acknowledged and embraced the fact that, absolutely speaking, he knows 0. Nothing at all. Even General Relativity is just a useful, accurate, mathematical *model* ... at best.

Precisely because of the fact he acknowledged he didn't know shit, he was able to grasp such a magical mind-bending thing as the relativity of time & the curvature of space. What preceded these genius insights was <a total empty, calm 'state of not-knowing'>. Period.

 


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Only to be a successful revolutionary scientist, not a successful normal scientist.


Intrinsic joy is revealed in the marriage of meaning and being.

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@Carl-Richard  in your opinion, what exactly did open the gates for  the scientific revolution?

I mean the Revolution of science and technology for the first time,
Which was firstly revolution of science and technology in the 1760 s ... (the middle of the 19th century), which is also known as the industrial revolution.

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One of the most importent things, for thinking outside the box, is to be bored, then your mind authentically begins to wonder and make new connections.

Being bored increase creativity.

Newton was rejected by his environment, including his own familiy, he was a kind of a scapegoat  so he spend a lot of time alone observing nature because he had nothing better to do so it pushed him to theorize.

And Einstein at the begining wanted to be a teacher but it happened that he got a boring job where he has a lot of time to think. There he has developed the theory of relativity.

 


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I think that there must be a healthy balance between consumption of knowledge and creation of knowledge.

Too much consumption of knowledge without reflection is shutting the creativity and make one a blind follower.

Too much contemplation without any or too little consumption of knowledge create insights with no or little grip in reality.

 


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10 minutes ago, KH2 said:

Both of them were also innately creative.

Newton with his way of demonstrating how prisms don't actually colour light blue. Einstein is rumored to have imagined sitting on a beam of light in his sleep, and imagining himself moving on that light beam (which is insane), which led him to discover that time behaves differently at different speeds.

Sure they also were highly intelligent individuals.

 


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17 hours ago, Someone here said:

@Carl-Richard  in your opinion, what exactly did open the gates for  the scientific revolution?

I mean the Revolution of science and technology for the first time,
Which was firstly revolution of science and technology in the 1760 s ... (the middle of the 19th century), which is also known as the industrial revolution.

I think science started with Pythagoras :)


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The scientific term for Not-Knowing is First Principles, if you want to take all the spirituality out of it.

I don't think Einstein, Newton, or any other great scientists took a mystical approach to their research. Although they might have got there by accident.

 

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