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Rosamond E. M. Harding
(6 Apr 1898 - 6 May 1982)
Author and piano historian. Having been turned down by publishers for her book, An Anatomy of Inspiration, she had it printed herself. It was sufficiently popular for a news editions and reprints.
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Science Quotes by Rosamond E. M. Harding (2 quotes)
Dreaming over a subject is simply … allowing the will to focus the mind passively on the subject so that it follows the trains of thought as they arise, stopping them only when unprofitable but in general allowing them to form and branch naturally until some useful and interesting results occur.
— Rosamond E. M. Harding
In An Anatomy of Inspiration (1940), 5.
If the scientist has during the whole of his life observed carefully, trained himself to be on the look out for analogy, and possessed himself of relevant knowledge, then the ‘instrument of feeling’ … will become a powerful divining rod … in creative science feeling plays a leading part.
— Rosamond E. M. Harding
In An Anatomy of Inspiration: And An Essay on the Creative Mood (1948), 96.
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) -- 
