This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson talks to the value of creativity in the clinical process. Science is typically considered a purely sensible and logical pursuit, however Emerson suggests that creativity is simply as essential. Creativity enables us to think outside package and come up with creative solutions to issues. It allows us to make connections in between relatively unrelated ideas and come up with new theories. Without creativity, science would be limited to what is currently known and accepted. Imagination allows us to explore the unknown and push the borders of understanding. Emerson's quote advises us that science owes an excellent debt to creativity and that it ought to be valued and motivated.
"To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science"
"Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin"
