“Science may explain aspects of art but it will not replace the inspiration that art evokes…”
Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist
The Age of Insight (2012)
“Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.”
— Karl Popper, book The Open Universe
The Open Universe : An Argument for Indeterminism (1992), p. 44
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Context: I want to clarify our understanding of the word 'art' – to be sure, without an attempt to a definition. What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.
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