"You'd think that art is based more on intuition and science is based more on knowledge and fact, but what I think happens is that as you get more proficient in either of those fields, the intuitive knowledge base and the factual knowledge base become equally important. In this sense, Einstein may have been an artist because he used an intuitive sense of how things worked."
Yo-ichiro Hakomori, biochem BA & architect
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