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My guess is that the average artists and writer is LESS creative then the average scientist. If for no other reason, then because the barrier to entry is much l
by biohacker42 17y ago
My guess is that the average artists and writer is LESS creative then the average scientist. If for no other reason, then because the barrier to entry is much lower. Do you need anything besides attitude to be an artists? And science is hard and intensely creative work. And for that matter, so is engineering.
- vorador 17y agoYou've got an interesting vision of artists. Don't you think that creating requires at least as much dedication as science ? After all, in art you never know that you're right, whereas in science you could verify it quite easily.
- thwarted 17y agoThe creativity in science does not come from the verification stage, but from the stage where you figure out how to attack a problem and formulate theories.
- vorador 17y agoYes but in the end you know if your right or wrong. Could you tell that Edgar Varèse was wrong when he composed atonal music ?
- biohacker42 17y agoI play a bit of music, I suck, but I do play, and I can absolutely tell you I KNOW when it's wrong. Not just out of tune but WRONG. And as the grand parent poster pointed out, the creativity in science isn't in the verification part.
- vorador 17y agoYou should listen to some atonal music. It may sound wrong but it's because of our culture (western music is based on scales, atonal music is not).
- thwarted 17y agoThe "end" of science isn't the verification stage either. If you're wrong, you use that to refine your theories and research strategy, using creativity, and continue testing. You hear artists say things like "This work isn't done yet, something is missing", as if that's some kind of exceptional state for the artist, yet they never actually complete it. Do legitimate scientists say that? I wouldn't think so, since continuous refinement the default state of science.
- vorador 17y agoI didn't use the right expression. I wanted to say that with science, there's an objective way to assess the validity of a method.