ABSTRACT
The discernable difference between the scientific painter, such as Albert Einstein, and the artistic painter, such as Salvador Dali, is that the scientific painter must construct works of art that have verifiable relations to the external world. John Sturart Mill, extending Francis Bacon's notion within a sociological context, asserted that deduction was powerless as a method of scientific discovery. The stories are also compatible with the observation that the "great insights" in science and art fight their way to expression in minds prepared to hear the message. For many, as science grew in strength, existential problems about God and creation lost their compulsion. The powerful implication of the inductive method is that the true nature of the universe can be constructed in the mind from information flowing in through the senses. Paradoxically, the ice core of science is a center of great beauty.
