Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Robert Root-Bernstein

American Professor of Physiology at Michigan State University, awarded MacArthur Fellowship, Consultant on Creativity

"The current cultural split lies not between scientists and everyone else but between those who innovate or create and those who do not. Innovators and the process of innovation must become the focus of study. Innovation is the lifeblood of cultural change."

"Let me be clear: Metaphors are essential to doing and teaching science."