Derek Hitchins (1935) British systems engineer
Source: Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering and Management (2003), p. 309; partly cited in: Kurt A. Richardson, Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley (2006) Systems Thinking and Complexity Science. p. 39
“Science may explain aspects of art but it will not replace the inspiration that art evokes…”
The Age of Insight (2012)
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“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist”
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Donald Ervin Knuth Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
Foreword to the book A=B http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html (1996) <br class="br">Source: Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
“Science is not science. It's an art, like… art, in a way.”
John Hodgman book The Areas of My Expertise
October 18, 2007
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Caitlín R. Kiernan (1964) writer
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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 book Daniel Martin
Daniel Martin (1977)
