Yitzhak Spielberg

Breakthroughs do not always come from within a field. Sometimes they come from people who are not bound by its assumptions and habits of thinking. Because of that distance, outsiders occasionally notice possibilities that insiders overlook. One famous example is George Green, a self-taught miller who, in 1828, introduced what...

Breakthroughs do not always come from within a field; sometimes they come from those unbound by its assumptions. Freed from its conceptual constraints, outsiders might be able to reframe problems in ways insiders rarely do. For example, in 1828, George Green, a self-taught miller with no place in the scientific...