Scientists and Artists are Nothing Alike...

I'd say the fundamental spirit of both science and art is the same: imagination. Scientists by nature must be imaginative. Einstein wasn't born with the knowledge of relativity. Wernher von Braun dreamed of humans exploring space, and he helped make it happen. They used science to accomplish things, but it was their imagination and inspiration that got them to those accomplishments. They had a passion for learning, understanding, and manipulating the natural world to create something that no one had before, from nothing more than what they dreamed of or were inspired by. Your cold, simple explanation of scientists and their spirit is a clear sign you don't understand what it means to be a scientist.

I think you are confusing scientists and engineers. Engineers build stuff based on known facts and principles. Good, imaginative stuff, but scientists very often pursue crazy ideas.

I have an art degree, but now work in a field that allowed me to just today in public refer to myself as a scientist, and no one thought that was inappropriate. You can be both. And use skills from one to inform the other.

Now, engineering and design (which I also do) are related, but different fields ruled by goals, objectives and constraints.

My daughter is both. My brother was both.

Every car you've ever been in was the marriage of both an artist and an engineer compromising to get maximum aesthetic and maximum function while using the technical abilities that scientists create.

The same goes for every building you've ever been inside assuming you're not in the projects or the former Soviet bloc, and even the Soviets utilized aesthetic when they could.