When we were children in Science, we learned how to solve problems using the scientific method. As scientists, we are thought to follow a straight and rational path to learn about the world. If we constantly use this strict method, there wouldn’t be a good reason why we would use creativity in Science. Surprisingly enough, creativity has a lot to do with science.¹

One of the ways Science can relate to Creativity is that we can characterize the creative thinking of the results of a novel and the value of the product. This might sound like nothing that has to do with neither Science nor Creativity but thinking is a given starting point is a pre-specified series of justified steps. If you think like that with Science, you can get somewhere far. For example, if you can calculate the -g force and +g force of a drop, you have the starting plan of the roller coaster. You can use science just like that, in a creative way. Another reason we need creativity is to generate alternative hypotheses. Creativity helps scientists develop new ideas about the world with results when they couldn't fit in, for example, time dilation/relativity & the arrangement of the periodic table of the elements. Without creativity, Science wouldn't be as interesting as it is.¹

¹In PhDeep - Creativity in Science