Image Source: FMD May 28th, 2012
intelligence - 1a (1) : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations - merriam-webster.com
scientific state of mind
1. fruitful question - "means that the question must take into account, as far as possible, everything already known about the object, event, or process under scrutiny and, amid this richness of information, must single out a salient mystery or obscurity."
2. hypothetical answer - an abstract construction of the suspected truth concealed behind the question
3. hypothesis tested -
4. new questions - a successful hypothesis opens up new questions (loops back to No.1)
information source: Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead [Page 66-68]
"Ït is the child of logos, which is always looking forward, seeking [outwardly] to know more and to extend our areas of competence and control of the environment."- Karen Armstrong (2000)