tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post115449643501732876..comments2024-03-25T02:33:41.590-05:00Comments on FemaleScienceProfessor: Science and Creativity and RelativityFemale Science Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15288567883197987690noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-1157856829060052322006-09-09T21:53:00.000-05:002006-09-09T21:53:00.000-05:00This one made me laugh. My family is pro-science, ...This one made me laugh. My family is pro-science, and my parents have made valiant efforts to read my book, but I think they would love it if I would get married and have babies. <BR/><BR/>To be honest, I think the truly creative and imaginative scientists are the best ones, but they tend to be less common than the average semi-creative arts major. We have to be creative within limits, just as poets do, but we have more rules we have to work around. You are allowed to ask if some commonly accepted theorem is wrong, but only one at a time. Artists don't have the same kinds of constrictions.Ms.PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11050354864577547294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-1157459051656425012006-09-05T07:24:00.000-05:002006-09-05T07:24:00.000-05:00I got here threough Dr. Mom's. I recently read in ...I got here threough Dr. Mom's. I recently read in Richard Feynman's at "Do You Care What Other People Think?" on this subject. Feynman argued with an artist freind that he too sees the beauty in a rose, as an artist does, and even more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-1156068555621411802006-08-20T05:09:00.000-05:002006-08-20T05:09:00.000-05:00This is a subject that interests me greatly. Why a...This is a subject that interests me greatly. Why aren't scientists allowed to view their work as creative? Is it because they are simply perceived as working through a series of already present problems? As your previous commenter points out, the problems also have to be discovered.<BR/><BR/>Who is the archetypal 'creator'? It is god. Was God a scientist? Not, I think, in the popular imagination. He was more of an artist. He had a blank canvas, and he created the world on it. Ever since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and even before, scientists have been perceived as working against nature, and hence against God. Their 'creations' are botches. Their work more associated with the devil.<BR/><BR/>My own efforts at trying to heal this rift are focussed on trying to see the links between science and art, rather than the differences.Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29059245.post-1154752292448168172006-08-04T23:31:00.000-05:002006-08-04T23:31:00.000-05:00It is quite hard for people to understand that you...It is quite hard for people to understand that <EM>you make the problems up yourself.</EM> That is not their experience with math and science!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com