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	License To Wonder

debbyski

11-4-2009 3:59 PM

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11-4-2009 4:01 PM

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11-5-2009 6:16 PM

Jorjor

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

-- Werner von Braun

11-5-2009 7:56 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ad838e3b-686e-48bc-aff8-aaf6d1b03cde/989664D1-872F-49FC-9007-FF4EE5FE3102/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/license-to-wonder/?th&emc=th" href="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/license-to-wonder/?th&emc=th" style="font-size: 11px;">judson.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/license-to-wonder/?th&emc=th"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/judson.blogs.nytimes.com/img/A4869E28-041D-4DE5-8ABC-0C5B9E96348B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/license-to-wonder/?th&emc=th">There are plenty of (probably) apocryphal tales about what inspired a great discovery, from Archimedes in his bathtub, to Newton and his apple.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/license-to-wonder/?th&emc=th">  Among the most famous is the story of Rosalind Franklin and her non-discovery of the structure of DNA.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/license-to-wonder/?th&emc=th">She had the data.  Why didn’t she reach the solution?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/license-to-wonder/?th&emc=th">There are several answers to this; but one is that she had a fixed idea about how the problem should be solved.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/license-to-wonder/?th&emc=th"><P>But there’s one way in which we should not be limited: imagination. As Einstein put it, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/989664D1-872F-49FC-9007-FF4EE5FE3102/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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