For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.
James Gleick (2011). “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, p.509, Open Road Media
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