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. Yet music is mainly about evoking, interpreting and savouring emotions, whereas science is essentially the pursuit of truth.
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Jee, J. Comparing science and music is unsound. Nature 500, 29 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/500029e
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