Creative Art?
“In scientific research, ideas just come to you from nowhere as themes come to a composer. . . . Great scientists throw off new ideas all the time; the rest of us have one now and then. But whether they are few or many, they all have this in common—that they simply appear in your mind from no source you can identify. And this is why no scientific paper is ever written with its real, genuine, honest historical introduction; because somewhere in the middle of it would have to be the statement, ‘At this point I had an idea.’ Editors cannot accept this; it removes science from its austere pedestal and makes it into a creative art; which, of course, it is, but we are not supposed to say so in public.”—Dr. W. T. Williams, professor of botany at Southampton University.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30396, 21 March 1964, Page 5
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140Creative Art? Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30396, 21 March 1964, Page 5
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