The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The greatest scientists are artists as well.
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.
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