I heard a story recently about a scientist working to publish a paper. He was going through the footnotes and making the necessary citations when he came across a scientific journal with an article title that sounded eerily similar to something he could name his own. Opening up the journal, he found the article, and began to read. Much to his surprise, two scientists all the way around the world had been doing some experiments of their own and come to the exact same conclusion he did.

In his own words, “Of course they came to the same conclusion. I realized that they’d have to, because I was right.”

And then he began to wonder what was the point of his being a scientist. If he wasn’t specifically needed for the discovery of something, if that truth simply existed out there for anyone to discover, then his personal importance no longer mattered.

Do you know what he did next? That scientist became an artist.

Why? Because in art you create something that would never have existed without your action.

It brought to mind the book of Genesis. Continue Reading…