The scientist or an artist is equally perceptive; else they would not ever have sized up assessing a need or a context for research or a piece to create. But what pulls them away generally is the focus required in value adding to the work and how presentable, it would be. This is a very generic statement though, and we do have scientists of the caliber of Jagadish Chandra Bose, who turned out to be a polymath—physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist, archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction. Couldn’t have been what he was, if he wasn’t perceptive. Likewise, we had Raja Ravi Varma, the painter from Kerala who travelled across the country for his choice of subjects and recalled his traditional Sanskrit ...
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