This fits well with the "Babylonian vs. Greek" approaches to science that Feynman talked about (a few days ago linked here, too), the Greek approach being "line

This fits well with the "Babylonian vs. Greek" approaches to science that Feynman talked about (a few days ago linked here, too), the Greek approach being "linear, logical", while the Babylonian approach is more all-encompassing, but possibly more messy, too. If you like to read more about this, take a look at Mlodinow's "Feynman's Rainbow" - it's a small autobiographical book about his time as a starting physics post-doc after a highly promising PhD thesis. He had his office a few doors down from Feynman (Babylonian) and Gell-Mann (Greek) and the book juxtaposes both positions. Mlodinow took up screenplay writing as a hobby, similar to OP's text his old PhD supervisor got angry when Mlodinow told him about his new hobby, "what a waste of time and thinking power" (paraphrased quote). He actually did end up writing a few episodes for Star Trek: TNG and is still a accomplished scientist, with quite a few successful popular science books published (one with Hawking: "The Grand Design"). Another thing: >Salvador Dali would dream in his chair as part of his work routine. The authors of the paper “Dual thinking for scientists” suggest controlled risk-taking, and artistic hobbies, and so called “mind-wandering” into future scientific education. You might have heard this (I think unproven) story a few times. Descartes always famously slept until lunch-time. One day he was idling in bed and watching a fly, which gave him the idea to describe the fly's movement in terms of three coordinates. Thus the Cartesian coordinate system was born.