What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
“People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.”
“Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.”