The arts solve the problem that we cannot live constantly in one realm. Victor Weisskopf:
I have often wondered why music was such an essential part of my life. . . . I cannot live constantly in the scientific realm. I need the change to other approaches offered by music and the other arts. There is a saying, “In the morning I turn from mystery to reality, in the evening I return from reality to mystery.” We need such differing approaches - Niels Bohr’s complementarity - as we sometimes need to turn to the other side of bed in order to get comfortable.
Another needed complementarity is habitually experiencing wild nature. For a brief biography of Victor Weisskopf, click here.
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