But science is a struggle sometimes, even for scientists, whose stock-in-trade is supposed to be imaginative hypotheses and penetrating insight.
Popper argued that science the best science, that is confronts practical and conceptual problems by proposing daring and imaginative hypotheses, which are formulated in a "context of discovery" that is not wholly rational, involving social, psychological, and historical influences.
A range of open questions challenges scientists to test imaginative hypotheses about induction of disease by radiation with novel research strategies.
This isn't a prediction of the future, rather imaginative examples of possible hypotheses.
One answer is the imaginative and humbling-sounding "zoo hypothesis".
One answer is the imaginative and humbling-sounding "zoo hypothesis". It says that aliens are in fact here, or at least watching us, but are pledged to not interfere.
Being imaginative means using your imagination more.
The ability to generate hypotheses is essential to creative, imaginative, divergent thought.
The neurally motivated model and results have led to new insights on the nature of inference, called the "simulation semantics" hypothesis, which asserts that understanding is imaginative simulation.
"The authors have opened up yet another exciting and imaginative area of research within which to frame and test new hypotheses for the origin and early evolution of animal-based communities".
