TOK BQ 5 - How is new knowledge about the world created?

Blending

the synthesis of different ideas and knowledge

Lauis Pasteur

"Chance favours a prepared mind"

Steve Jobs

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while."

Madeleine L'Engle

"Great art transcends its culture and touches on what is eternal"

Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Pablo Picasso

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."

Isaac Asimov

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."

James Clerk Maxwell

"Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science."

Tom McLeish

"What we call the 'scientific method' really only refers the second half of any scientific story"

Albert Einstein

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."

Serendipity

An accidental but fortunate discovery ex. LSD, teflon, radiation, viagra, X-rays

What are the three ways in which we create new ideas?

Bending - when you change and manipulate something that's already existing Breaking - to physically break something apart Blending - the synthesis of different ideas and knowledge

What did Kory Stamper mean when referring English being like 'a river'?

English flows based on how a language is made and how it is connected and created in a bigger pool area of similar words

Stuart Firestein

[Science is about] "farting in the dark"

Context

Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning.

What is Erin McKean's definition of language?

a group of people who understand each other

Eureka moment

a moment at which a person realizes or solves something

Linguistic Pendant

a person who is very strict and set to following the correct use of words

Connotation

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

paradigm shift

our practice of science or way of thinking that goes through a series of revolutions to fit a certain way or use

What is the difference between scientific discovery and artistic creations?

someone else can easily take your role of making a discovery in science while in art, there wouldn't be the same concept or idea replaced or repeated twice by someone else

Denotation

the literal meaning

What does Eagleman mean by 'derivations and extrapolation?

to create an original idea does not exist, but it is an influence from older works of art

Breaking

to physically break something apart such as a concept or situation to create a new idea

Bending

when you change and manipulate something that's already existing