Should I lose hope in my Creator? I set my eyes upon the merits of my fathers. For the sake of them the Lord will give me His aid. - Jacob Bronowski

If any ideas have a claim to be called creative, because they have created something, then certainly it is the ideas of science.

The sneer that science is only critical came from others. It was made by the timid and laboured artists of the nineties in order that they might by comparison appear to be creative and intuitive. Yet this finesse could not hide their own knowledge that the best minds were already being drawn to the more adventurous practice of the new sciences.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.