Question
I was in my husband's library, oh, dusting or something, and came across a book called Truth and Beauty, by S. Chandrasekhar, a Nobel Prize winner best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star.There's a lecture in the book, The Ryerson Lecture, on "Shakespeare, Newton, and Beethoven, or Patterns of Creativity," which poses the question, "Can we in fact discern any major differences in the patterns of creativity among the practitioners in the arts and the practitioners in the sciences?" I know we have some scientists on board, so i was wondering--
What do you think?
Here's a link to the lecture.
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Dale Estey says:
Koff Koff
You were dusting?
An honourable occupation to be sure, but did it fit into the creative ouvre?
Cheryl L Snell says:
How's this?
It was the physical embodiment of metaphoric mental- cobweb-sweeping.
My story; stickin' to it.
Cheryl Snell www.shivasarms.blogspot.com
Belle Yang says:
I would like to have my biophysicist friend
to answer, but he is just starting his semester of teaching. Perhaps I'll get him to answer this in a few weeks.
Cheryl L Snell says:
There's a lot of that going around--
right in my own house, too.
Syllabus,syllaabi, syllabuses...
Cheryl Snell www.shivasarms.blogspot.com
Matthew Biberman says:
Flow
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Is an interesting account of how creativity works across the disciplines: it is essentially an ethnographic study of creative types. I head him talk at a seminar in Chicago when the Art of the Motorcycle Guggenheim Show toured. I was on the panel with him, truth be told, but don't hold that against him. The thing I remember most is that he was struck with how a consistent pattern among creative types is the ability to walk away from a project when it is done.
PS I liked the essay you called our attention too as well.
Cheryl L Snell says:
I remember
being so impressed with the first of the Flow books. I read it at a time when I was being forced to re-tool my work life--I had incurred the wrong kinds of deficits after brain surgery to be able to concertize again, and needed to change my creative course. MC gave me the courage to try to write.
Cheryl Snell www.shivasarms.blogspot.com