http://freelancingscience.com/2009/04/14/science-and-art-limits-in-scientific-creativity/ visualization, protein science, open science and freelancing science Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://freelancingscience.com/2009/04/14/science-and-art-limits-in-scientific-creativity/#comment-1072 Sat, 08 May 2010 06:57:02 +0000 http://freelancingscience.com/?p=360#comment-1072 Beautiful! A must-cite for this paper I’m writing on the creative nature of original scientific theories!

]]> http://freelancingscience.com/2009/04/14/science-and-art-limits-in-scientific-creativity/#comment-731 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:02:37 +0000 http://freelancingscience.com/?p=360#comment-731 I agree with the prior posts. There is an indistinguishable line between great art and innovative science. Great post.

]]> http://freelancingscience.com/2009/04/14/science-and-art-limits-in-scientific-creativity/#comment-727 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:24:21 +0000 http://freelancingscience.com/?p=360#comment-727 I was always sure that science and art go together. I am a scientists, and I do not have a single doubt that the things I program/write/plan, are artworks. Artworks and “scienceWorks” exist cause of their creator (and many other things), they need unconventional ways of thinking (like joining to sepparate fields that where never used together before) and they also require the courage to let go certanties.

]]> http://freelancingscience.com/2009/04/14/science-and-art-limits-in-scientific-creativity/#comment-726 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:28:54 +0000 http://freelancingscience.com/?p=360#comment-726 Sometimes after I finish teaching and I look at the board and a particularly beautiful proof is up there, I find it hard to erase it for the next instructor. I often tell me students that when they start ‘seeing’ the beauty, they are becoming mathematicians.

]]> http://freelancingscience.com/2009/04/14/science-and-art-limits-in-scientific-creativity/#comment-724 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:47:56 +0000 http://freelancingscience.com/?p=360#comment-724 Good conversation. I think that beauty in science (not sure about art) is all about simplicity. It is far more satisfying to find a simple way of doing something powerful (synthetic or analytic) than to arrive to it via brute force. At least that is what bothers me when designing experiments. Probably the mechanism to search for that simplicity is via analogies.

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