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'According to his son and daughter, he would play music whenever he faced an intractable problem, and would often finish the performance by saying, “There now,
by yowlingcat 7y ago
'According to his son and daughter, he would play music whenever he faced an intractable problem, and would often finish the performance by saying, “There now, I’ve got it”. It was a much better use of his time than continuing to fruitlessly agonise over the maths or physics.'
Fascinating. Definitely have experienced this with hard problems and writing music. There must be some kind of orthogonality going on there.
- adamgia 7y agoIt implies the existence of a common underlying connection between music (or should I say art in general) and pretty much everything else. And there's the science-society-art triangle that seems to work really nicely together as three pillars of knowledge you can pursue. There's a perspective based on either of those three you can take when considering anything. I have no punchline, it's fascinating to me too.