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Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides. This is a remarkable and life-affirming book by one of the most far-sighted thinkers of modern

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #73243 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
'This is a brilliant book, of great depth and originality.'
- Physics Today

'One of the most searching thinkers in modern physics.' - Nature

'Bohm is a tremendously exciting thinker.' - Colin Wilson

'A rare combination of depth and breadth.' - René Weber

'Bohm is a cultured and engaging thinker.' - The Guardian

'Bohm's thoughts ... are profound and stimulating.' - New Scientist

'David Bohm shows by example how investigations in the humanities can integrate the discipline and intellectual optimism inherent in science. His voice is wonderfully warm and sober.'
- Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author

'Bohm offered to us what philosophy has always tried to do: a world-view that enables us to read between the lines of the book of nature.' - Paavo Pylkkänen

'Bohm not merely tells us what creativity is and what blocks it, he also helps us to become creative ourselves.' - Paavo Pylkkänen

'For Bohm creativity is neither pure chance nor the outcome of some mechanical process. Instead, it involves a non-mechanical generation of a new order, both in matter, life and mind.'
- Paavo Pylkkänen

'Bohm's thinking is a good example of the kind of creativity he believed to be an aspect of nature.' - Paavo Pylkkänen

'One finds here an unusually candid and casual look into the views of one of the twentieth century's boldest and most original scientific thinkers.'
- Timothy Ferris

'An openness to the irreducible nature of the whole in both science and art summarizes the timeless philosophical stance of David Bohm. The delight to have On Creativity and On Dialogue made into Routledge Classics has special relevance to our era of fracture, contention and public duplicity.' - Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

'this work is highly recommended for its analysis of the fascinating, still woefully underexplored terrain connecting art and science'
- Dorion Sagan

From the Back Cover

With a new preface by Leroy Little Bear

‘This is a brilliant book, of great depth and originality.’ – Physics Today

Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity, David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides: not only the creativity of invention and imagination, but also that of perception and discovery. This is a remarkable and life-affirming book by one of the most far-sighted thinkers of modern times. First published: 1998.

About the Author
David Bohm (1917-92). Renowned physicist and theorist who was one of the most original thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century.

Customer Reviews

careful attention to our confusion sets us free
We all know that we are continuallly tempted to lie. Fear and past conditioning are causing us to go numb. We are hearing 'program-voices' which are telling us we are not good enough. Careful attention to these voices, so that we start hearing them consciously will silence them, it is actually all that is needed to set our joy and creativity free.

Creativity is something which cannot be aimed at directly, it is a by-product of a free mind.