title: Rho Chi Lecture Award. Is it possible to teach scientific creativity in the pharmaceutical sciences? Anecdotes and memorabilia.
abstract: Finally, and what may be a fitting end for this recounting, there is a quotation of Francis Bacon's that gives a poetic interpretation of creativity in the scientist: "A scientist is neither an 'ant,' storing what it finds lying about ready-made, nor a 'spider,' spinning a web out of what its entrails secrete. He is a bee, visiting innumerable flowers and collecting the nectar it finds in them; but storing not this nectar in its crude state but the honey into which it turns."
mesh_terms: D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D003405:Creativity; D004512:Education, Pharmacy; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D010551:Personality; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching