does great scientists like thomas edison,charless babbage,einstein,newton know everything that has already been invented or did they invented it with imagination and creativity
2007-04-25 04:19:49 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No you do not have to know all that has been discovered... We are all great scientist; you just have to choose weather or not you want to imagine it or make it happen.
2007-04-28 22:46:30 · answer #1 · answered by rob3437 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one rises or falls on their own. We always build on the foundations of what came before us. If, as in your example, someone wants to use their imagination but knows little or nothing of what went on before, how do they know they are no just re-inventing the wheel? coming up with something someone else has already done? What the great scientist will do is expand on what has already been done, take what someone else has started and take it to new places, this is the place of the imagination. But it does begin at a certain point. The question perhaps is, should one begin at zero or at a million? It will save time, effort, money and energy to build on what others have done before.
No matter what we do we cannot and should not ever get away from history. That is who we are and it is the foundation on which we build into the future.
2007-04-25 04:25:02 · answer #2 · answered by John B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would imagine they would like to be abreast of what competitors are doing but then again they were and are people of imagination and inspiration. They are people with total awarness, that is why they are so pronounced.
If one was trying to come up with something new, I think they would know of people doing similar work. And would want to be.
Having said that, if we are talking about history then communication around the world was not as it is today, so problems may have occured with keeping up to date.
2007-04-25 04:32:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-23 05:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's both our imagination & knowledge.I don't think Einstein would have made his Relative theory without knowing the Newton's Law at first.
2007-04-25 04:32:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer depends upon your definition of "all that has been discovered". This is a personal opinion based upon your understanding of "all".
We know that there are lots of things we do not know and are looking for. Here is where we get philosophical . We know things and we know that we do not know things. Even if we were to know all the things we do not know there are the things that we do not know that we do not know. These are things beyond our experience, our senses and our imagination.
If we know all things that we do not know that we do not know, how, do we know that we know all that we do not know ? We do not know ? So we know only what we think we know .
2007-04-25 05:14:57 · answer #6 · answered by Ted K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The great scientists saw things in a different way than everyone else, and then they showed everyone else what they saw.
Great scientists can see things that many of us miss.
2007-04-25 04:25:26 · answer #7 · answered by aspicco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science does not make one great. Invention, imagination, creativity and discovery have nothing to do with it either. It seems that your perspectives of "greatness", "science" and achieving them are somewhat skewed.
2007-04-25 04:33:54 · answer #8 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagination is what this life is all about...lol
Can you read between the lines? Imagination is the magnet of the image.
Good luck!
No, I didn't think so...LOL
2007-04-25 04:34:36 · answer #9 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah they might have formulated it all in their mind before making it into reality. That is to say that theirs a bit more advanced than ours. heheheheh
2007-04-25 04:28:18 · answer #10 · answered by shanekeavy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋