http://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/quote-of-the-day-385/ Thoughts on art, culture, and the writing life. Tue, 21 May 2013 14:34:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/quote-of-the-day-385/#comment-3305 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:27:55 +0000 http://nevalalee.wordpress.com/?p=12226#comment-3305 Actually, I’d argue that there are plenty of examples of scientists doing exactly what Nietzsche describes here—Gauss, Einstein, Kekulé, Poincaré…

]]> http://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/quote-of-the-day-385/#comment-3300 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:12:49 +0000 http://nevalalee.wordpress.com/?p=12226#comment-3300 I know I’m quibbling with Freddy here (and by extension you, my apologies, no criticism intended), but I believe he is thinking about just his particular fields of knowledge. Astrophysicists and other hard science scientists, for example, would expand this opinion.

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