This is, unfortunately, one of those popular myths and stereotypes about physicists specifically, and scientists in general, that seems impossible to irradicate. Yes scientists use logical thinking in describing 'laws' of nature and formulating theories. That's why the left- hemisphere is so good with logic. But published interviews with great scientists such as Einstein, Feynman and Penrose show, unequivically, that physics is as much a right-hemisphere function, and in fact, without this feature, we would never be able to work with patterns in nature. Artists are great at non-verbally seeing patterns, shapes and classifying forms in nature.
Scientists do likewise when they search for patterns in data, or pursue abstract ideas.
This is a non-verbal process that only in the last stages seems to involve logical processes. Return to the Ask the Space Scientist main page.