While the way creativity works has been clear for centuries, it always helps to have someone as revered as Stephen Hawking weigh in. “The recipe is simple,” he told an admiring crowd at Canada’s prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, “Put willing people together in an inspiring and creative intellectual environment where they are encouraged to pursue ambitious and timely research.”
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