«I've recently been exploring the links between the kinds of scientific imagination that enable us to construct radically new theories of the world and the kind of fertile fictive imagination that is ubiquitous in very young children's pretend play. (newscientist.com)
The world of facts, laws, and theories that results from this process of inquiry is not the real world in its fullness, but an abstract world issuing from the creative scientific imagination. (religion-online.org)