Science and art are different aspects of one purpose. Hear Jacob Bronowski:
When men misunderstand their own work, they cannot understand the work of others; so that it is natural that these scientists have been indifferent to the arts. They have been content, with the humanists, to think science mechanical and neutral; they could therefore justify themselves only by the claim that it is practical. By this lame criterion they have of course found poetry and music and painting at least unreal and often meaningless. I challenge all these judgments. (Quoted from Science and Human Values, by Jacob Bronowski, New York: Harper & Row, Perennial Library, 1972; p. 6.)
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