While the tasks that govern a research scientist’s activity are ultimately quotidian in nature, the intellectual process itself is, by necessity, a creative one. In the quest for scientific discovery, we build new hypotheses upon a repository of ideas. Reaching the end goal of scientific ingenuity demands our ability to transmute new ideas into tangible objects or statements.

At its core, the nature of scientific work is no different from art. Science differs only in its representation of an individual’s ability to refashion our expectations of the physical world rather than stretch the boundaries of our aesthetic sensibilities.