{"id":23568,"date":"2012-05-17T21:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T21:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-i-discover-a-scientific-idea-surely-someone\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T21:02:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T21:02:19","slug":"if-i-discover-a-scientific-idea-surely-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/if-i-discover-a-scientific-idea-surely-someone\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If I discover a scientific idea, surely someone else would\u2019ve discovered the same idea had I not done so. Whereas, look at Van Gogh\u2019s \u201cStarry Night\u201d \u2014 if he didn\u2019t paint \u201cStarry Night,\u201d nobody\u2019s gonna paint \u201cStarry Night.\u201d So, in that regard, the arts are more individual to the creative person than a scientific idea is to the one who comes up with it \u2014 but, nonetheless, they are both human activities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/16\/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-science\/\">Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I discover a scientific idea, surely someone else would\u2019ve discovered the same idea had I not done so. Whereas, look at Van Gogh\u2019s \u201cStarry Night\u201d \u2014 if he didn\u2019t paint \u201cStarry Night,\u201d nobody\u2019s gonna paint \u201cStarry Night.\u201d So, in that regard, the arts are more individual to the creative person than a scientific idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-688","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}