I have always thought the dichotomy between science and art was false. Both require imagination to excel.
From the article...
“Both science and art are creativity and imagination and execution,” Johnson says. “You come up with new ideas and you test those ideas and you execute them. So I find that the creative people of the world come in many flavors. People always talk about science and art as being very different things, and I find them to be very similar things.”
edited to add I never thought CP Snow was actually stating there should be a division but that any division was artificial because art and science are synergistic.
http://m.nautil.us/issue/58/self/why-do-so-many-scientists-want-to-be-filmmakers
You do need creativity to become a scientist. It's just the way science is taught that may lead people to believe creativity is not needed.
ReplyDeleteConsidering home many people don't recognise the science embedded in their life that's no surprise
ReplyDeleteThe headline misleads. They are not saying they want to be filmmakers. They are saying they would have pursued a career in that field had they not become scientists. It says something about parallels between the professions. But it doesn’t mean scientists actually are longing to be filmmakers.
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