“The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.”

—  Jacob Bronowski

Part 4: "The Abacus and the Rose" (p. 103)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)

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