Creativity, Out of Box Thinking,
Do not capitalize these words.
I completely disagree with the definition of originality that says it is "putting old ideas in new ways." How will you find new ways of putting old ideas
together without discovering something completely new?
than the existing one?... been discovered by great scientists.
When we throw an object, it falls back to the ground. This is an existing truth that everybody knows, but how...
many people had really tried to find out the reason behind it until it stroke for the first time to Sir Issac Newton by observing an apple falling from the tree? Hence, the discovery of gravitational force came...----Again, to not capitalize words unnecessarily.
We all observe birds flying in the sky, but what made birds fly was never thought by anyone other than Wright Brothers. ----This is not true!
E=mc2 theory of Energy by Einstein -----I think he came up with this theory by putting old ideas together in new ways.
At the end I would like to say that Originality not just means putting old ideas in new
ways. It certainly requires thinking from a different perspective to discover the existing truth of nature and refine the old ideas with a consistent effort to discover better ones.
This is a very thoughtful essay! However, I think originality usually comes from a unique combination of existing ideas.