Perhaps this is going to sound somewhat romantic (please bear with me) but what
about all those wonderful renaissance people who were artists, scientists,
inventors, designers rolled into one (Da Vinci, Christopher Wren, Brunel etc
etc)
This division of disciplines and specialisation seems to be a twentieth-century
phenomena
Here's a quote from Karl Popper that I think might be relevant here:
'The scientist and the artist, far from being engaged in opposed or
incompatible activities, are both trying to extend our understanding of
experience by the use of creative imagination ... both are using irrational as
well as rational faculties ... Both are seekers after truth who make
indispensable use of intuition' (from Magee, 1973)
Peter
Peter Walters
PhD Student
Sheffield Hallam University
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/adrc/research2/peterwalters
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