For Nietzsche, the scientist is an artist tout court, but one who not only fails to know this about him (or herself) but who also denies it, dissembling this 'artistry' whenever an inkling of this truth comes to light be it for him- or herself but above all for society -- inasmuch as here too one finds (as everywhere) will to power and it is science today, rather than religion, that is the very be