Categories are necessary and maddening. It’s become standard to think of our world as having “two cultures,” science and humanities, rarely meeting and mostly contending for primacy. The result is lots of unhappiness and misunderstanding, creating bad outcomes. It’s far  more interesting and productive to think of pattern-finding, creativity, and the urge for discovery and communication as fundamental human activities. They take many forms, with different expressions and lots of connections, some spanning centuries.