Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Interpretation
Science explores the miraculous aspects of existence that remain beyond our understanding, while art seeks to interpret those mysteries.
In this quote by Ray Bradbury, he draws a profound connection between science and art. He suggests that science operates as an inquiry into the miraculous phenomena of the universe that, despite our best efforts, remain largely inexplicable. In parallel, art serves as a medium through which these mysteries can be expressed and understood, indicating that both disciplines, though distinct, are deeply intertwined in their quest to uncover and interpret the wonders of existence.
In practice
In a lecture on the interdependence of art and science, this quote highlights how both fields try to unravel the universe's mysteries.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.
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