Sparks of Genius: The 13 Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People

Reality can be experienced only when we understand how the art emerges from and relates to life itself.

But it had never occurred to John that such mathematical problems existed in real life. He could not relate his incredible store of academic knowledge and his fantastic facility with numbers to everyday activity. His Illusions failed to connect with Reality.

“Intuition or mathematics?” asks inventor and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. “Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?”

To think creatively is first to feel.