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John P. Briggs
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American science writer whose books include Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos (1992) and Fire in the Crucible: The Alchemy of Creative Genius (1988).
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Science Quotes by John P. Briggs (2 quotes)
Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self become rigid and closed, restricting an open creative response to the world.[Co-author with David Peat]
— John P. Briggs
In John F. Briggs and David Peat, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change (1999, 2000), 29. A footnote gives the source of this idea as from David Shainberg, The Transforming Self: New Dimensions in Psychoanalytic Process (1973).
Through science or an artform—through creativity—the individual genius seems to live at the exhilarating edge of what it means to have our human mind.
— John P. Briggs
In Fire in the Crucible: Understanding the Process of Creative Genius (2002), Prologue, xiii.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
