Baking Without Rules

I've heard before that cooking is an art and baking is a science. I'm not sure where, perhaps my grandmother said it. I suppose it's true,

the most evident difference between cooking and baking is that baking is often times a precise chemistry and the specific intersection of proportion to degree of heat; therefore it's success, in large, is directly correlated to one's ability to follow a recipe closely. But something strange happens every time I attempt to commit to trying a new recipe: I begin to analyze and immediately deviate from it almost immediately. And unfortunatley [or maybe quite fortunately] as positive reinforcement, the baked good turns out delicious anyway.