
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
"Sense and Sensibility"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
Source: 1950's, Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950, p. 140
Motherwell's writing in 1944; as cited in 'Robert Motherwell, American Painter and Printmaker' https://www.theartstory.org/artist-motherwell-robert-life-and-legacy.htm#writings_and_ideas_header, on 'Artstory'
1940s
"The Scientific Revolution and the Machine"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)
11.2, "The Renaissance", p. 336
The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn (2004)
(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.
Source: 1950's, Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950, p. 17
“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
“First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.”
Ibid.
Essays and reviews, From the Land of Shadows (1982)