RE:Blog Art and Science are intertwined
Posted by tracey on:
"Almost all Nobel laureates in the sciences are actively engaged in arts as adults. They are twenty-five times as likely as average scientist to sing, dance, or act; seventeen times as likely to be an artist; twelve times more likely to write poetry and literature; eight times more likely to do woodworking or some other craft; four times as likely to be a musician; and twice as likely to be a photographer." - Bob Root-Bernstein, Ph. D., physiologist and MacArthur Fellow. (Via S.C. Kavassalis)
via Boing Boing
3 Comments
Comment by Anonymouse on
To be a scientist, one must engage in orderly, but artful thinking. Intuitive leaps supported by a grounding in 'what is'. To be an artist, one must engage in inspired thinking which results, when done well, in a product that expresses a kind of visual coherence, that conforms to some kind of underlying order. And it makes the world go round and round.
Comment by Tracey on
Beautifully stated Anonymouse. Artful thinking can reveal the truths unknown and unseen by the knowing mind.
Comment by Ws1 on
These re:blogs are awesome Tracey. and yeah, well-put @anonymouse.