Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty

by James H. Austin

Book Overview

A personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research.This first book by the author of Zen and the Brain examines the role of chance in the creative... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231042949
• ISBN13: 9780231042949
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My students give Austin's book high marks

For more than ten years I taught a research design course to graduate students at Utah State University, and to help them understand how scientists create hypotheses I made Austin's (an nationally awarded researcher) "Chase, Chance, & Creativity" assigned reading, along with other books and journal articles on hypothesis creation. Consistently they reported that his book helped them most and is on par with good novels in being hard to put down. As for me, I believe "C,C, & C" will help people in all fields (artists, inventors, entrepreneurs,. . .) be more creative. I'll go so far to say to its publisher that it'll be a service to civilization to keep it in print forever.