I've seen it go both ways. Had a good friend tell me that experimentalists can be theorists if they really wanna, but that theorists never make good experimentalists. I just said "yeah, yeah, totally," and then went back to whatever I was doing. More often than not, it's generational.
I think creativity might be the #1 most undervalued trait in physics, but it's notoriously difficult to quantify. It's a catch-22.
- experimentalists can be theorists if they really wanna, but that theorists never make good experimentalists.
No, I was saying that I didn't agree with the guy. I said what I did to be polite, but I didn't want to explore that conversation with him any further. Any broad sort of generalizations having anything to do with different types of intelligence hold no appeal with me.
Going to edit in more of a response later, but wanted to clear that up ASAP. Very busy right now, my apologies.