We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
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.
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
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.
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' ...
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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 modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.
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.
