Scientist as artist: The role of imagination
JUL 01, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/1.4797395
Benford replies: Kent Eschenberg’s quotation from Robert Root-Bernstein makes a valuable point. Scientists are more like artists than bank cerks (though T. S. Eliot was both). Allowing for a broad range of personality types could enhance our sciences and avoid the narrow constraints that trap many into stylized thinking.
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Gregory Benford. University of California, Irvine, US .
© 2006 American Institute of Physics
