Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Just think for a moment if science really could move in the field of authenticity of works of art. There would be a cultural revolution to say the least, but also, I would say, a market revolution, let me add.
In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' ...
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
There is safety in numbers. And science. Clone your way to being safe. Nobody can protect you like you. And you and you and you.
hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.
Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there were only two.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
The absence of theistic belief... { }
From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress...
Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.
