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Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

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Scientific imagination creates fresh ways to understand how things connect, similar to how artists see relationships between ideas or forms in new ways. Both types of imagination reshape our perspective by revealing patterns and links that were not obvious before.

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