“Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.”
Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born (Penguin, 1990), pp. 176
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“All good science is art. And all good art is science.”
Daniel Martin (1977)

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Donald Judd, "Local History" (1964); Quoted in: Judd (1975, p. 151); and cited in: David Raskin. Donald Judd. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
1960s

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.”
As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925)
Variant translation: The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
As quoted in Ionia, a Quest (1954) by Freya Stark, p. 94

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Working

On his childhood roots in Tamil Nadu.
Appreciate science for what it is: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan