Download or read book The Scientific Imagination written by Gerald James Holton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using firsthand accounts gleaned from notebooks, interviews, and correspondence of such twentieth-century scientists as Einstein, Fermi, and Millikan, Holton shows how the idea of the scientific imagination has practical implications for the history and philosophy of science and the larger understanding of the place of science in our culture.