... reading
about other people’s attempts in the files ofthe patent office.
You go home and sketch your invention, and then make a
model of it.
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Use the stepping
stones of analogy
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they make their names as discoverers or inventors. Compare
the following list of inventions in the box below with the
occupations of their inventors:
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Invention ... serve in the Arab Legion,
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The...
... their varied fields. Over the
years, Jeff Koons has become a dear friend. He
generously allowed us to use the image of one of
my favorite works of art, Rabbit, on the cover of
Chapter 1
The Art ... 107 or 108 of
the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without
either the prior written permission of the
Publisher, or authorization through payment of the
appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright
Clearance ... instinctively.
The project that is consuming much of my
attention these days is the construction of The
Broad, our new museum in downtown Los
Angeles. Despite the daunting amount of work that
is filling their...
... connect the seemingly
unconnected.
William Plomer
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Art of Creative Thinking 1-134:Creative Thinking ... wanted.’
One ofthe prime aims of education, it could be argued, is to
develop such an inquisitive mind. The whole artof teaching,’
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Art of Creative Thinking 1-134:Creative ... face of a
statue ofthe Buddha. He felt that he could see a resemblance
between the look of Buddha’s face and how he imagined the
front ofthe motorbike would be. Having spent the rest of the
week...