“Science is not science. It's an art, like… art, in a way.”
October 18, 2007
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Art is science made clear.”
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
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Caitlín R. Kiernan
(1964) writer
(15 June 2007)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2007
Context: Art is not science. Even when art is about science, it is still art. There cannot be consensus, in the sense that science strives for meaningful consensus. And unlike science, art is not progressive. Personally, I have my doubts that science can be said to be genuinely progressive, but I'm pretty dammed certain that art is not. Which is not to say that it is not accumulative or accretionary. But the belief that sf writers are out there forecasting the future, that they have some social responsibility to do so, that's malarky, if you ask me. Writers of sf can only, at best, make educated guesses, and usually those guesses are wrong, and clumping together to form a consensus does not in any way insure against history unfolding in one of those other, unpredicted directions. People love to pick out the occasional instances where Jules Verne and William Gibson got it right; they rarely ever point fingers at their miscalls.
“All good science is art. And all good art is science.”
John Fowles
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Daniel Martin
Daniel Martin (1977)
“It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 38.
Joseph Beuys
(1921–1986) German visual artist
as quoted in Joseph Beuys and the Celtic Wor(l)d: A Language of Healing, by Victoria Walters, LIT Verlag Münster, 2012, p. 206
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Claude Bernard
(1813–1878) French physiologist
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
Harry Gordon Selfridge
(1858–1947) America born English businessman
The Romance of Commerce (1918), Concerning Commerce
Miguel de Unamuno
(1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), I : The Man of Flesh and Bone
Raymond Chandler
(1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter
"Great Thought" (19 February 1938), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)
Context: There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
George Henry Lewes
(1817–1878) British philosopher
The Principles of Success in Literature (1865)
Context: If clear Vision be indispensable to success in Art, all means of securing that clearness should be sought. Now one means is that of detaining an image long enough before the mind to allow of its being seen in all its characteristics. The explanation Newton gave of his discovery of the great law, points in this direction; it was by always thinking of the subject, by keeping it constantly before his mind, that he finally saw the truth. Artists brood over the chaos of their suggestions, and thus shape them into creations.