Creativity and Science, Coming Together | StarTalk

if you identify yourself as being only
either creative or scientific you’re
doing yourself a big disservice there’s
a lot of brain cells in the human in the
human skull that are capable of all
manner of analysis creativity deduction
inference and I think the best
scientists are creative and the best
creative artists have some logical
rational side to them that can bring
some sense of meaning in order to what
they’re doing at some level they don’t
have to lead with it but it’s there it’s
there you look at a van Gogh painting
very far from what is representational
painting of course it’s impressionist
but there is structure there there it’s
not just completely random stuff coming
out of his without him looking there
he’s he’s fought this through I’d like
to see all discussion of I’m left brain
like brain I don’t think that I’d like
to see that just go by way of I want to
see that go extinct as a way of thinking
about what your human potential is we
all have brains
we all have brain halves or however we
split the brain to decide where you’re
gonna be dominated and where you’re not
develop at all
and watch what comes out
you