Published for the First Time: a 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity | MIT Technology Review

The ideas here are interesting. Asimov’s central thought is that creative people tend to think out of the box.

I think this is true, but it’s worthwhile to define the the box. The hardest box to describe is the one you’re in. So perhaps Asimov, who by all accounts, was a brilliant, intuitive thinker, was nevertheless mentally constrained by the box of the 20th century’s worship of deductive science.

Okay, stop right there. Don’t panic. I am ever as much a fan of deductive science. But I do be...