Science, Order, and Creativity: A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life

Science, Order, and Creativity: A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life

by David Bohm
Science, Order, and Creativity: A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life

Science, Order, and Creativity: A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life

by David Bohm

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Overview

In this thought-provoking book, two of the last century’s foremost scientific thinkers contend that science has lost its bearings in favor of a narrow, abstracted, fragmented approach to nature and reality. Dr. David Bohm, who has worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein, and Dr. F. David Peat, author of Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind, propose a return to a greater creativity and communication in the sciences. They ask for a renewed emphasis on ideas rather than formulae, on the whole rather than fragments, on meaning rather than mere mechanics.
 
Tracing the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein, from the Pythagorean theorem to quantum mechanics, the authors offer intriguing new insights into how scientific theories come into being, how to eliminate blocks to creativity, and how science can lead to a deeper understanding of society, the human condition, and the human mind itself. Science, Order, and Creativity looks to the future of science with elegance, hope, and enthusiasm. And it shows how each of us can work creatively in our own lives to help bring new meaning and order to the universe we share.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780553344493
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/01/1987
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction1
1Revolutions, Theories, and Creativity in Science15
2Science as Creative Perception-Communication63
3What Is Order?104
4The Generative Order and the Implicate Order151
5Generative Order in Science, Society, and Consciousness192
6Creativity in the Whole of Life229
Index272
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