Seeing connections and patterns that aren’t immediately obvious, leading to innovative breakthroughs and deeper understanding.
Discovery is as much about the imaginative reconfiguration of what we know
Discovery, whether by a schoolboy doing it on his own or by a scientist cultivating the growing edge of his field, is in its essence a matter of rearranging or transforming evidence in such a way that one is enabled to go beyond the evidence so reassembled to new insights.
- By Jerome Bruner, On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand