I'm kind of a hermit and that probably helps. One of the annoying things to me is that we're not allowed to say that there is any art in what we do because that seems to trivialize it. We're doing something hard. We're stripping away the illusion from the truth. I think it relates to the idea of physics envy.
Hard science is physics.
You go from mathematics to physics to chemistry to molecular biology to biology to organismal biology. And then you get up into ecology and, God forbid, psychology and sociology, which are barely considered sciences. It's called physics envy. It's like everyone is trying to reaffirm their identification with physics and chemistry. Right now we have this drive to analyze DNA, as if we don't really know what something is until we know what its DNA looks like.