The crux of creativity

[4meonly]

The crux of creativity resides in the ability to manufacture variations on a theme. If we look at the history of science, for instance, we see that every idea is built upon a thousand related ideas. Careful analysis leads us to understand thatwhatwe choose to call a new theme or a new discovery is itself always and without exception some sort of variation, on a deep level, of previous themes.

If all of the statements in the passage are true, each of the following must also be true EXCEPT:

(A) A lack of ability to manufacture a variation on a previous theme connotes a lack of creativity.
(B) No scientific idea is entirely independent of all other ideas.
(C) Careful analysis of a specific variation can reveal previous themes of which it is a variation.
(D) All great scientific discoverers have been able to manufacture a variation on a theme.
(E) Some new scientific discoveries do not represent, on a deep level, a variation on previous themes.

OA E

[gkammaje]

E) Some new scientific discoveries do not represent, on a deep level, a variation on previous themes. - Out of scope--

I think this is the only statement that cannot be proved from the question. The question does not mention or talk about 'new scientific discoveries'.

[valentindima]

a) Is the reciprocal of the first sentence. If 'the crux of creativity is the ability to....", then the lack of the second equals missing the first.
b) "...we see that every ideea is built upon a thousand related ideas"
c) Sentence 3 in the text states this clearly
d) Sentence 2 + sentence 1: "every idea is built upon..." means also that "all great discoverers built upon...", and "..creativity is the ability to manufacture.."
e) negates a statement in the text, that "every idea is built.." meaning that all are built upon previous.

So it is E

[Brad.C]

Option E looks good than other answers