"One thing that binds music and science is the idea that sincere, personal investment in one's work is good."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23903738

Nature. 2013 Aug 1;500(7460):29. doi: 10.1038/500029e.

Lab life: Comparing science and music is unsound.

Jee J.

"Stephane Detournay suggests that both scientific research and music composition undergo phases of “onset, development, refinement and exposition” (Nature 499, 245; 2013). But so do hedge-fund management and tomato farming.

One thing that binds music and science is the idea that sincere, personal investment in one's work is good."