“And his particular magical knowledge, while vast, isn’t really useful in our research,” Luna said. “’Tis just… too different.”“Yes. You see,” Discord was suddenly wearing a painters smock and fedora and holding a brush and painters’ mortarboard “Chaos magic is more of an art than a science…” he proceeded to paint one of the statues on the balcony in polka dots and checkerboards. “In fact it seems to get irritable if you try to get all science-y with it.” He said the last in a flat voice as he regarded his work. “Bleh. I wanted stripes.”“Hard to do lab work when you try to add two and two and keep getting ‘potato,’ “ Celestia admitted.