¶ Intuition of the Child (1)
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RBF Definitions
"One place the scientists and artists and inventors all come together is certainly in the intuition. And I speak of intuition as the phenomenon that occurs in the twilight zone between the clearly conscious and the clearly subconscious. There is a twilight where there are drives and capabilities, where the genius that is in us makes us look in a direction intuitively. But it’s often being diverted by something else. There is the grownup who says, ‘Darling, don’t look in that direction, look this way.’ And the child misses something extremely important that is there.
"The scientist… is really subjective, trying to find order, looking for order; recognizing there is a whole lot of experience-- which is the biggest? which is the hottest?-- putting them in order. Suddenly you understand: some significance may occur. Then the artist goes on beyond having found out principles and goes on to apply the principles. This is where I find the scientist and the artist really come together and I think that both were spontaneous in the child.
“Then the little child is told, 'Now which do you want to be? If you want to be able to prosper you’re going to have to have”
¶ Citations
- RBF in Ed Newman TV Interview, Feb’73
