Really big ideas come from intelligent playfulness
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If you’ll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you’ll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas.
— Dr. Gorman Tarbell, fictional scientist in Kurt Vonnegut’s short story Armageddon in Retrospect.