Art And Science Quotes - Page 2

• Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Expression, Profound

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Science, Journey

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• True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Sacrifice, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “On the Significance of Science and Art”, p.65, The Floating Press

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• Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

  Lancelot Law Whyte

  Art, Complexity

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• ...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Creativity, Science

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Opportunity, Errors

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• Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

  Edward Tufte

  Art, Information, Common

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• Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Art, Years

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• Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

  Edwin Land

  Art, Science, Accounts

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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• To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
  having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Grace, Degrees

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Art, Philosophy, Ambition

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• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Unique, Men

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• Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Art, Freedom

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.37, Princeton University Press

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• Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Degrees, Found

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.796, Delphi Classics

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• Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, World

  Speech by King Willem-Alexander at the Diplomatic Corps dinner, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, www.royal-house.nl. June 24, 2015.

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• Science and art are not opposed.

  Samuel Morse

  Art

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• Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

  Reggie Watts

  Dream, Art, Doe

  Twitter post from Aug 6, 2012

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• The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Art, Fundamentals

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• In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Art, Feelings

  "The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It".

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

  William Blake

  Depressing, Art, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.169, Penguin

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• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Technology, Information Society

  "Bringing Science Back to Earth". Interview with Anne Kalosh, Hemispheres (the magazine of United Airlines), October 1994.

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• Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Men, Levels

  Ludwig van Beethoven (1961). “Letters”

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• Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science

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