What Is Intellect? Part Two

scientist, we saw, is an artist in his discovery of principles of things. Beveridge writes: Scientific research is an art, not a science.' Note analogy, suggested by Wertheimer, with musical composer: A composer does not usually put notes together to get some melody; he envisages character of melody.2 melody is intuited as a whole, not constructed part after part. And in a sonata or symphony, variations on theme follow from nature of theme. As theologian Paul Tillich says: Music is no less rational than mathematics.3 Even C. Spearman has a like view. Here is a psychologist who has no use for intellectual insight as a gift from without; he says, the credence in any such further and transcendent faculty [intuition] is unwarranted by any known facts whatsoever.4 Yet, he declares of art and science: Both are composed of precisely same ultimate elementary processes.5 So, too, W. H. George in his study of scientific method, Scientist in Action, says: The scientist is here presented as an artist' and Scientific research is not itself a science.'7 artist, like scientist, discovers ideal possibles, be they realized in nature or be they only matter of his own idealization. To repeat: What distinguishes him from scientist is that he constructs some physical object -a picture, statue, poem, or novel--which may reveal to a beholder or reader beautiful or thrilling object he has discovered, whereas scientist, if a mathematician, is concerned to prove that his object forms an

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