Candice Carpenter’s Reviews > Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People > Status Update

The biggest problem posed by our ignorance of nothingness is how to determine when a pattern is absent because it doesn't exist and when it is present but can't be perceived.

...If problems dealing with absence, nonoccurence, or deletion of events and information were incorporated into learning situations more rigorously and regularly, nothingness would become as useful a tool in perception, memory, and problem generation...