yes.

“Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poets–scientists and philosopher–scientists and even a few mystics. […] and most people who are in fact scientists could easily have been something else instead.” -Sir Peter Medawar, The Art of the Soluble (1967)