Einstein was correct about the physical world, but I doubt Charlie Parker or Toni Morrison or Banksy based their work or intent on the physics that led to semiconductor chips.
Ira
That strikes a chord with me because my father was a very good jazz saxophonist and an educator.
I didn't inherit his ear, so my music career went nowhere but we did talk about jazz and, like a lot of improvisation masters, he said understanding the "rules" were what made it possible to play coherent jazz. Even if you couldn't think about them while playing.
When he was teaching school he played in a trio with a banker (drummer) and a weil driller who played Chordovox and talked like the characters in the movie Fargo.
I asked him why he liked playing with the well driller. He said, "Because he doesn't make any mistakes." Then added something like, "When you're playing jazz, you need someone who'll be where you expect them to be when you come back to the melody."
Parker, Morrison and Banksy never wandered off into the wilderness without some kind of map.