CONTENTS 



CHAPTER Pog^ 



Preface viii 



I. Preparation 



Study I 



Setting about the Problem 8 



II. Experimentation 



Biological experiments 13 



Planning and assessing experiments 19 



Misleading experiments 23 



III. Change 



Illustrations 27 



Role of chance in discoveries 31 



Recognising chance opportunities 34 



Exploiting opportunities 37 



IV. Hypothesis 



Illustrations 41 



Use of hypothesis in research 46 



Precautions in the use of hypothesis 48 



V. Imagination 



Productive thinking 53 



False trails 58 



Curiosity as an incentive to thinking 61 



Discussion as a stimulus to the mind 63 



Conditioned thinking 64 



VI. Intuition 



Definitions and illustrations 68 



Psychology of intuition 73 



Technique of seeking and capturing intuitions 76 



Scientific taste 78 



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