科学想象在创造性思维中的作用

The Function of the Scientific Imagination in Creative Thinking

科学想象是根据现有的科学知识和事实,发挥高度的抽象和联想能力,超越现实条件,猜测未知的客观规律,设想未知的变化过程,描绘科学发展和人类征服客观世界的奇妙远景,提出一种为人们所向往的目标和理想。科学想象具有科学性、想象性、现实性的特点,在人类思维活动中起着最主动、最积极、最有创造性的作用。研究创造性思维必须研究科学想象。

Scientific imagination brings the abstract and imaginative abilties into full play according to the present scientific knowledge and facts. It surpasses the realistic condition to predict the unknown objective law,to assume the process of the unknown changes,and to describe the wonderful prospect of the scientific development and the objective world conquered by man. Scientific imagination possesses the characters of science,imagination and reality . It has the most active and the most creative function.