"Writing is an act of faith,
not a trick of grammar"
- E .B. White -
No two professions seem to be more different from each other than a scientist and a novel writer. While one pursues utmost rigor, the other one seeks freedom. While one engages in an endless parade of analysis, calculation, formalisation, deduction, and induction, the other one immerses in fantasy and vivid imagination. They exist on two polars of life.
Do they?
It turns out, scientists do pursue the art of rhetoric and writers do rely on rigor. It turns out, scientists do imagine, of what is out there at the frontier and what is in here - our minds, and writers do calculate and analyse to build their plotlines, to construct their worlds.
Eventually, both scientists and writers trade their lives for the same purpose: to give a voice to the unheards. Worlds, characters, and epic journeys would never be heard without a hardworking writer. Ideas, hypotheses, and solutions would never be shared without a hardworking scientist.
That might be the reason people like us exist.
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