In basic disposition and nature, there is a great difference between students of science and students of the humanities. The former tend to use "convergent thinking" --looking at a variety of phenomena to find one theory, whereas the latter use "divergent thinking," finding all kinds of possibilities from one phenomena.
學科學和學人文者在稟賦、氣質上有很大差異。前者比較是從多種現象或可能中找出一個結論的「聚合性思考」；後者則是從一個現象看出多種可能性的「分歧性思考」。