This first chapter surveys the landscape of the book, and the questions it will seek to explore. By listening to the verbal associations we bring to arts and to science, we observe that one reason for the differences is that artists and scientists are private and public about different aspects of their work. Science only speaks of the creative, inspirational moments, more familiar in the arts, in hushed tones, while artists are less forthcoming about the arduous journey from concept to creation through experiment, trial, and error, an essential process closely shared with science. By listening to Einstein, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, and the biblical Book of Job, we conceive of the commonality of imagination within constraint that connects the work of art and science alike.