ABSTRACT

Science masterpieces, however, are never completely finished. Whereas works of art are often unique and subjective visions of the world, works of science are mainly collaborative and objective representations. When one generation of scientists stops working on a theory, the following generation continues the work. Scientific theories are therefore unfinished pictures of the natural world which scientists constantly struggle to improve. New generations of scientists evaluate, investigate and apply their own imaginations to the representations of their predecessors.