The art and science of building castles in the sky and houses of cards that don't collapse

Joseph L. Goldstein

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2022.08.027

The art and science of building castles in the sky and houses of cards that don't collapse

Joseph L. Goldstein

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Abstract

The creative process in art and science involves two phases—generating and exploring new and wild ideas (building castles in the sky) and then narrowing down and focusing on the most tractable and useful ones (building houses of cards that don't topple over).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3839-3843
Number of pages	5
Journal	Cell
Volume	185
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.08.027
State	Published - Oct 13 2022

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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The art and science of building castles in the sky and houses of cards that don't collapse

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