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In artibus et scientiis, tanquam in metalli fodinis, omnia novis operibus et ulterioribus progressibus circumstrepere debent
But arts and sciences should be like mines, where the noise of new works and further advances is heard on every side.
— Sir Francis Bacon
Original Latin as in Novum Organum, Book 1, XC, collected in The Works of Francis Bacon (1826), Vol. 8, 50-51. As translated by James Spedding and Robert Leslie Ellis
in The Works of Francis Bacon (1863), 127.

In scientia veritas, in arte honestas.

In science truth, in art honour.
— Anonymous
In Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005), 170.

L’Art est fait pour troubler, la Science rassure.

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
— Georges Braque
From the original French, “L’Art est fait pour troubler, la Science rassure,” in Pensées sur l’Art. As translated by S. Appelbaum in Georges Braque Illustrated Notebooks:
1917-1955 (1971), 10. Also seen elsewhere translated as, “Art upsets, science reassures” or “Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them.”

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Nicht Kunst und Wissenschaft allein,

Geduld will bei dem Werke sein.
Not Art and Science serve alone; Patience must in the work be shown.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lines for character Mephistopheles in Faust I. As translated by Bayard Taylor in Lilian Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (German) (1909, 256. Also translated as “Not art
and science only, but patience will be required for the work”, in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 298,
No. 11.

Notatio naturae, et animadversio perperit artem

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005), 78.

Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt,

Hat auch Religion;
Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt,
Der habe Religion
He who possesses science and art,
Possesses religion as well;
He who possesses neither of these,
Had better have religion.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
'Gedichte' in Goethes Werke (1948, 1952), Vol. 1, 367. Cited in Max Jammer, Einstein and Religion (2002), 79.

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 — G. H. Hardy
In A Mathematician's Apology (1940, 2012), 115.

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A theory is a supposition which we hope to be true, a hypothesis is a supposition which we expect to be useful; fictions belong to the realm of
art; if made to intrude elsewhere, they become either make-believes or mistakes.
— G. Johnstone Stoney
As quoted by William Ramsay, in 'Radium and Its Products', Harper’s Magazine (Dec 1904), 52. The first part, about suppositions, appears in a paper read by G. Johnson
Stoney to the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia (3 Apr 1903), printed in 'On the Dependence of What Apparently Takes Place in Nature Upon What Actually
Occurs in the Universe of Real Existences', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge (Apr-May 1903) 42,
No. 173, 107. If you know a primary source for the part on fictions and mistakes, please contact Webmaster.

Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that
engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and
the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.
— John D. North
In John D. North, 'The Case for Metal Construction', The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, (Jan 1923), 27, 11.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest
scientists are always artists as well.
— Albert Einstein
Remark (1923) as recalled in Archibald Henderson, Durham Morning Herald (21 Aug 1955) in Einstein Archive 33-257. Quoted in Alice Calaprice, The Quotable Einstein
(1996), 171.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the
sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
— Albert Einstein
'Moral Decay', Out of My Later Years (1937, 1995), 9.

Architecture is of all the arts the one nearest to a science, for every architectural design is at its inception dominated by scientific
considerations. The inexorable laws of gravitation and of statics must be obeyed by even the most imaginative artist in building.
— Anonymous
In 'The Message of Greek Architecture', The Chautauquan (Apr 1906), 43, 110.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former
with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance
our profit and maximize our pleasure.
— Bertolt Brecht
Brecht’s positive vision of theater in the coming age of technology, expressed in Little Organon for the Theater (1949). In The Columbia World of Quotations (1996).

Art and science encounter each other when they seek exactitude.
— Étienne-Jules Marey
AS quoted in Gus Kayafas, Estelle Jussim and Harry N. Abrams, Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton (2000), 24.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Caxtoniana (1875), 303.

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the
use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people
who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
— Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (trans.), Brecht on Theatre (1964), 73.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
— René Daumal
'The Lie of the Truth'. (1938) translated by Phil Powrie (1989). In Carol A. Dingle, Memorable Quotations (2000), 61.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most
disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.
— Rémy de Gourmont
Rémy de Gourmont and Glenn Stephen Burne (ed.), Selected Writings (1966), 170.

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Art is I; science is we.

— Claude Bernard
In Lily Splane, Quantum Consciousness (2004),307

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

— John Opie
As given, without citation, in Maturin Murray Ballo, Edge-Tools of Speech (1851), 25. Also in a fictional conversation in novel by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton, Zanoni
(1842), 89.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard (1928), 101.

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius,
which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.
— John Dryden
In Samuel Austin Allibone, Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1880), 45.

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we
were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting—the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of
science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
— Saul Bellow
From More Die of Heartbreak (1987, 1997), 246-247.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This
is a fundamental weakness.
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
In Kermit Lansner, Second-Rate Brains: A Factual, Perceptive Report by Top Scientists, Educators, Journalists, and Their Urgent Recommendations (1958), 31. Note: Dr.
I.I. Rabi was chairman of President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee.

Attainment and science, retainment and art—the two couples keep to themselves, but when they do meet, nothing else in the world matters.
— Vladimir Nabokov
In Time and Ebb (1947) in Nine Stories(1947), 102.

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

— Lancelot Law Whyte
In The Griffin (1957), 6, No 10.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by
experience.
— Garry Kasparov
In How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (2007), 4.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.
— H. L. Mencken
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), 622.

Doubtless it is true that while consciousness is occupied in the scientific interpretation of a thing, which is now and again “a thing of beauty,” it
is not occupied in the aesthetic appreciation of it. But it is no less true that the same consciousness may at another time be so wholly
possessed by the aesthetic appreciation as to exclude all thought of the scientific interpretation. The inability of a man of science to take the
poetic view simply shows his mental limitation; as the mental limitation of a poet is shown by his inability to take the scientific view. The
broader mind can take both.
— Herbert Spencer
In An Autobiography (1904), Vol. 1, 485.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
— Herbert Spencer
Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical (1861), 77.

Engineering is the science and art of efficient dealing with materials and forces … it involves the most economic design and execution …
assuring, when properly performed, the most advantageous combination of accuracy, safety, durability, speed, simplicity, efficiency, and
economy possible for the conditions of design and service.
— J. A. L. Waddell
As coauthor with Frank W. Skinner, and Harold E. Wessman, Vocational Guidance in Engineering Lines (1933), 6.
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Every art should become science, and every science should become art.
 — Friedrich von Schlegel
In Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (1797, trans. 1968), 132.

Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the
interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all the
branches of the great human family.
— Lord Thomas Macaulay
In The History of England From the Accession of James the Second (1849), Vol. 1, 365.

Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side.
— Armand Trousseau
In Armand Trousseau and John Rose Cormack (trans.), Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris (1869), Vol. 2, 40.

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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The
present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.
— Julian Lowell Coolidge
Concluding remark in preface to Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves (1931), x.

Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support … The sailor and
traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets,
but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.
— Walt Whitman
In Walt Whitman and William Michael Rossetti (ed.), 'Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass', Poems By Walt Whitman (1868), 46.

For just as musical instruments are brought to perfection of clearness in the sound of their strings by means of bronze plates or horn sounding
boards, so the ancients devised methods of increasing the power of the voice in theaters through the application of the science of harmony.
— Vitruvius
In Vitruvius Pollio and Morris Hicky Morgan (trans.), 'Book V: Chapter III', Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture (1914), 139. From the original Latin, “Ergo veteres
Architecti, naturae vestigia persecuti, indagationibus vocis scandentes theatrorum perfecerunt gradationes: & quaesiuerunt per canonicam mathematicorum,& musicam
rationem, ut quaecunq; vox effet in scena, clarior & suauior ad spectatorum perueniret aures. Uti enim organa in aeneis laminis, aut corneis, diesi ad chordarum sonituum
claritatem perficiuntur: sic theatrorum, per harmonicen ad augendam vocem, ratiocinationes ab antiquis sunt constitutae.” In De Architectura libri decem (1552), 175.

For most scientists, I think the justification of their work is to be found in the pure joy of its creativeness; the spirit which moves them is
closely akin to the imaginative vision which inspires an artist.
— James B. Conant
In Modern Science and Modern Man (1951), 58.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
— Friedrich von Schlegel
Idea 68. In Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (trans. 1968), 155.

Fractals are patterns which occur on many levels. This concept can be applied to any musical parameter. I make melodic fractals, where the
pitches of a theme I dream up are used to determine a melodic shape on several levels, in space and time. I make rhythmic fractals, where a
set of durations associated with a motive get stretched and compressed and maybe layered on top of each other. I make loudness fractals,
where the characteristic loudness of a sound, its envelope shape, is found on several time scales. I even make fractals with the form of a piece,
its instrumentation, density, range, and so on. Here I’ve separated the parameters of music, but in a real piece, all of these things are
combined, so you might call it a fractal of fractals.
— Györgi Ligeti
Interview (1999) on The Discovery Channel. As quoted by Benoit B. Manelbrot and Richard Hudson in The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and
Reward (2010), 133.

Gradually, … the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating
nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of
truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to
which art cannot aspire.
— Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), xxiv.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained.
— Robert Barclay
In An Apology For the True Christian Divinity (1825), 15.

He who posseses science and art, has religion; he who possesses neither science nor art, let him get religion.
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Quoted in Miguel De Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life (1913), translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1954), 210.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, For Art
and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.
— William Blake

How far will chemistry and physics … help us understand the appeal of a painting?
— Hazel Swaine Rossotti
Colour: Why the World Isn’t Grey (1983). Quoted in Sidney Perkowitz, Empire of Light (1999), 1.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from
everyday life.
— Albert Einstein
Quoted, without citation in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Feb 1959), 85. If you know a primary source, please contact Webmaster.

I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful
crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal
life into the world of objective perception and thought; this desire may be compared with the townsman’s irresistible longing to escape from
his noisy, cramped surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges freely through the still, pure air and fondly traces out
the restful contours apparently built for eternity.
— Albert Einstein
Address at The Physical Society, Berlin (1918) for Max Planck’s 60th birthday, 'Principles of Research', collected in Essays in Science (1934) 2.

I do believe that a scientist is a freelance personality. We’re driven by an impulse which is one of curiosity, which is one of the basic instincts
that a man has. So we are … driven … not by success, but by a sort of passion, namely the desire of understanding better, to possess, if you
like, a bigger part of the truth. I do believe that science, for me, is very close to art.
— Carlo Rubbia
From 'Asking Nature', collected in Lewis Wolpert and Alison Richards (eds.), Passionate Minds: The Inner World of Scientists (1997), 197.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is
man.
— Fidel Castro
In G. Barry Golson (ed.) The Playboy Interview (1981), 254.

I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his own head, a set
of options and imaginative alternatives. His role is that of a scientist, whether on safari or in his laboratory, faced with an unknown terrain or
subject. All he can do is to devise various hypotheses and test them against the facts.
— J. G. Ballard
Crash (1973, 1995), Introduction. In Barry Atkins, More Than A Game: the Computer Game as a Fictional Form (2003), 144.

I was reading in an article on Bizet not long ago that music has ceased to be an art and has become a science—in which event it must have a
mathematical future!
— Lafcadio Hearn
In letter to H.E. Krehbiel (1887), collected in Elizabeth Bisland The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (1922), Vol. 14, 8.

If any layman were to ask a number of archaeologists to give, on the spur of the moment, a definition of archaeology, I suspect that such a
person might find the answers rather confusing. He would, perhaps, sympathize with Socrates who, when he hoped to learn from the poets and
artisans something about the arts they practised, was forced to go away with the conviction that, though they might themselves be able to
accomplish something, they certainly could give no clear account to others of what they were trying to do.
— James Rignall Wheeler
Opening statement in lecture at Columbia University (8 Jan 1908), 'Archaeology'. Published by the Columbia University Press (1908).

If Louis Pasteur were to come out of his grave because he heard that the cure for cancer still had not been found, NIH would tell him, “Of
course we'll give you assistance. Now write up exactly what you will be doing during the three years of your grant.” Pasteur would say, “Thank
you very much,” and would go back to his grave. Why? Because research means going into the unknown. If you know what you are going to do in
science, then you are stupid! This is like telling Michelangelo or Renoir that he must tell you in advance how many reds and how many blues he
will buy, and exactly how he will put those colors together.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Interview for Saturday Evening Post (Jan/Feb 1981), 30.

Imagination comes first in both artistic and scientific creations, but in science there is only one answer and that has to be correct.
— James Watson
In 'Discoverers of the Double Helix', The Daily Telegraph (27 Apr 1987), in Max Perutz (ed.), Is Science Necessary: Essays on Science and Scientists (1991), 182.

In all spheres of science, art, skill, and handicraft it is never doubted that, in order to master them, a considerable amount of trouble must be
spent in learning and in being trained. As regards philosophy, on the contrary, there seems still an assumption prevalent that, though every one
with eyes and fingers is not on that account in a position to make shoes if he only has leather and a last, yet everybody understands how to
philosophize straight away, and pass judgment on philosophy, simply because he possesses the criterion for doing so in his natural reason.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
From Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) as translated by J.B. Baillie in 'Preface', The Phenomenology of Mind (1910), Vol. 1, 67.

In early times, medicine was an art, which took its place at the side of poetry and painting; to-day, they try to make a science of it, placing it
beside mathematics, astronomy, and physics.
— Armand Trousseau
In Armand Trousseau and John Rose Cormack (trans.), Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris (1869), Vol. 2, 40.

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In general, art has preceded science. Men have executed great, and curious, and beautiful works before they had a scientific insight into the
principles on which the success of their labours was founded. There were good artificers in brass and iron before the principles of the
chemistry of metals were known; there was wine among men before there was a philosophy of vinous fermentation; there were mighty masses
raised into the air, cyclopean walls and cromlechs, obelisks and pyramids—probably gigantic Doric pillars and entablatures—before there was a
theory of the mechanical powers. … Art was the mother of Science.
— William Whewell
Lecture (26 Nov 1851), to the London Society of Arts, 'The General Bearing of the Great Exhibition on the Progress of Art and Science', collected in Lectures on the Results
of the Great Exhibition of 1851' (1852), 7-8.

In pure mathematics we have a great structure of logically perfect deductions which constitutes an integral part of that great and enduring
human heritage which is and should be largely independent of the perhaps temporary existence of any particular geographical location at any
particular time. … The enduring value of mathematics, like that of the other sciences and arts, far transcends the daily flux of a changing
world. In fact, the apparent stability of mathematics may well be one of the reasons for its attractiveness and for the respect accorded it.
— Moses Richardson
In Fundamentals of Mathematics (1941), 463.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only
in one or two of them. And in scientific inquiry, at any rate, it is to that one or two that we must look for light and guidance.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
'The Progress of Science'. Collected essays (1898), Vol. 1, 57.

In scientific matters ... the greatest discoverer differs from the most arduous imitator and apprentice only in degree, whereas he differs in
kind from someone whom nature has endowed for fine art. But saying this does not disparage those great men to whom the human race owes so
much in contrast to those whom nature has endowed for fine art. For the scientists' talent lies in continuing to increase the perfection of our
cognitions and on all the dependent benefits, as well as in imparting that same knowledge to others; and in these respects they are far superior
to those who merit the honour of being called geniuses. For the latter's art stops at some point, because a boundary is set for it beyond which
it cannot go and which has probably long since been reached and cannot be extended further.
— Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Judgement (1790), trans. J. C. Meredith (1991), 72.

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences and
arts which have been made within that period. Some of these have rendered the elements themselves subservient to the purposes of man, have
harnessed them to the yoke of his labors and effected the great blessings of moderating his own, of accomplishing what was beyond his feeble
force, and extending the comforts of life to a much enlarged circle, to those who had before known its necessaries only.
— Thomas Jefferson
From paper 'Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Fix the Site of the University of Virginia' (Dec 1818), reprinted in Annual Report of the Board of Visitors of the
University of Virginia for the Fiscal Year Ending May 31, 1879 (1879), 10. Collected in Commonwealth of Virginia, Annual Reports of Officers, Boards, and Institutions of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, for the Year Ending September 30, 1879 (1879).

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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

— Edwin Herbert Land
In Alan R. Earls and Nasrin Rohani, Polaroid (2005), 20.

Inspiration plays no less a role in science than it does in the realm of art. It is a childish notion to think that a mathematician attains any
scientifically valuable results by sitting at his desk with a ruler, calculating machines or other mechanical means. The mathematical imagination
of a Weierstrass is naturally quite differently oriented in meaning and result than is the imagination of an artist, and differs basically in
quality. But the psychological processes do not differ. Both are frenzy (in the sense of Plato’s “mania”) and “inspiration.”
— Max Weber
From a Speech (1918) presented at Munich University, published in 1919, and collected in 'Wissenschaft als Beruf', Gessammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre (1922),
524-525. As given in H.H. Gerth and C. Wright-Mills (translators and eds.), 'Science as a Vocation', Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1946), 136.

It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have
not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or
more uncommon lights.
— Joseph Addison
Spectator, No. 253. In Samuel Austin Allibone, Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1880), 60.

It is not, indeed, strange that the Greeks and Romans should not have carried ... any ... experimental science, so far as it has been carried in
our time; for the experimental sciences are generally in a state of progression. They were better understood in the seventeenth century than
in the sixteenth, and in the eighteenth century than in the seventeenth. But this constant improvement, this natural growth of knowledge, will
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merely that new principles have been discovered, but that new faculties seem to be exerted. It is not that at one time the human intellect
should have made but small progress, and at another time have advanced far; but that at one time it should have been stationary, and at
another time constantly proceeding. In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public
works, the ancients were at least our equals. They reasoned as justly as ourselves on subjects which required pure demonstration.
— Lord Thomas Macaulay
History (May 1828). In Samuel Austin Allibone, Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1880), 36.

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

— William Blake
Letter to William Hayley (11 Dec 1805). Collected in William Blake and Archibald George Blomefield Russell (ed.), The Letters of William Blake (1906), Vol. 1, 189.

It seems to be considered as a common right to all poets and artists, to live only in the world of their own thoughts, and to be quite unfitted
for the world which other men inhabit.
— Friedrich von Schlegel
In Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and Modern (1841), 5-6.

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Man is unique not because he does science, and he is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his
marvelous plasticity of mind.
— Jacob Bronowski
In The Ascent of Man (1973), 412.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent
to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative
philosopher, and the natural scientist do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in
order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
— Albert Einstein
Address at The Physical Society, Berlin (1918) for Max Planck’s 60th birthday, 'Principles of Research', collected in Essays in Science (1934, 2004) 3.

Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; of all other none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called
mathematical.
— Henry Billingsley
The Elements of Geometric of the most ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara (1570), Note to the Reader. In Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The
Philomath's Quotation-book (1914), 44.

Mathematics is not only one of the most valuable inventions—or discoveries—of the human mind, but can have an aesthetic appeal equal to that
of anything in art. Perhaps even more so, according to the poetess who proclaimed, “Euclid alone hath looked at beauty bare.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
From 'The Joy of Maths'. Collected in Arthur C. Clarke, Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998, 460.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
— Friedrich von Schlegel
Aphorism 365 from Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797-1800). In Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary
Aphorisms (trans. 1968), 147.

Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of
mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art; by informing us of the nature of our own minds it informs us of much that depends
on our minds.
— Antoine-Thomson d’ Abbadie
In Aspects of Science: Second Series (1926), 94.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to
any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such
as only the greatest art can show.
— Bertrand Russell
Essay, 'The Study of Mathematics' (1902), collected in Philosophical Essays (1910), 73-74. Also collected in Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays (1918), 60.

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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
— Camille Paglia
'Alice in Muscle Land,' Boston Globe (27 Jan 1991). Reprinted in Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992), 82.

Neither art nor science knows anything of moral approval or disapproval. Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon
eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
— Oscar Wilde
In his dialogue 'The Critic As Artist', collected in Intentions (1891), 156. Also collected in Oscariana: Epigrams (1895), 27.

Nobody, I suppose, could devote many years to the study of chemical kinetics without being deeply conscious of the fascination of time and
change: this is something that goes outside science into poetry; but science, subject to the rigid necessity of always seeking closer
approximations to the truth, itself contains many poetical elements.
— Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
From Nobel Lecture (11 Dec 1956), collected in Nobel Lectures in Chemistry (1999), 474.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
— André Breton
Mad Love (1937) translated by Mary Ann Caws (1988), 25.

On one occasion committee members were asked by the chairman, who was also in charge of the project, to agree that a certain machine be run
at a power which was ten percent lower than the design value. [Franz Eugen] Simon objected, arguing that “design value” should mean what it
said. Thereupon the chairman remarked, “Professor Simon, don’t you see that we are not talking about science, but about engineering, which is
an art.” Simon was persistent: “What would happen if the machine were run at full power?” “It might get too hot.” “But, Mr. Chairman,” came
Simon’s rejoinder, “Can’t artists use thermometers?”
— Nicholas Kurti
(1908). From N. Kurti, 'Franz Eugen Simon', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Nov 1958), 4, 247.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness,
from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of
objective perception and thought.
— Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein and Walter Shropshire (ed.), The Joys of Research (1981), 40.

One rarely hears of the mathematical recitation as a preparation for public speaking. Yet mathematics shares with these studies [foreign
languages, drawing and natural science] their advantages, and has another in a higher degree than either of them.
Most readers will agree that a prime requisite for healthful experience in public speaking is that the attention of the speaker and hearers alike
be drawn wholly away from the speaker and concentrated upon the thought. In perhaps no other classroom is this so easy as in the
mathematical, where the close reasoning, the rigorous demonstration, the tracing of necessary conclusions from given hypotheses, commands
and secures the entire mental power of the student who is explaining, and of his classmates. In what other circumstances do students feel so
instinctively that manner counts for so little and mind for so much? In what other circumstances, therefore, is a simple, unaffected, easy,
graceful manner so naturally and so healthfully cultivated? Mannerisms that are mere affectation or the result of bad literary habit recede to
the background and finally disappear, while those peculiarities that are the expression of personality and are inseparable from its activity
continually develop, where the student frequently presents, to an audience of his intellectual peers, a connected train of reasoning. …
One would almost wish that our institutions of the science and art of public speaking would put over their doors the motto that Plato had over
the entrance to his school of philosophy: “Let no one who is unacquainted with geometry enter here.”
— Wiliam F. White
In A Scrap-book of Elementary Mathematics: Notes, Recreations, Essays (1908), 210-211.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was
at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
— Joseph Addison
In The Spectator (2 Aug 1712), No. 447, collected in The Spectator (9th ed., 1728), Vol. 6, 225.

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 — Oscar Wilde
In Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (2007), 48.

Poets are always ahead of science; all the great discoveries of science have been stated before in poetry.
— Oscar Wilde
In Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (2007), 71.

Psychology is in its infancy as a science. I hope, in the interests of art, it will always remain so.
— Oscar Wilde
In Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (2007), 51.

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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

— Bruno Bettelheim
A Good Enough Parent (1988), 14.

Say’st thou, “The Course of Nature governs All?”

The Course of Nature is the Art of GOD.
— Edward Young
The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (1742, 1750), Night 9, 273.

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with
a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the “higher life.”
— Aldous (Leonard) Huxley
Ends and Means (1937), 320. In Collected Essays (1959), 369.

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

— François-Alexandre-Nicolas-Cheri Delsarte
In collection compiled by Charles Noel Douglas, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917), 1536. Stated (no on quotation marks) in F. A. Dursvage, 'Desarte',
Atlantic Monthly (May 1871), 620.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them.
Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From 'In a Conversation With a German Historian' (1813), in Kate Louise Roberts (ed.), Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), 691.

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
Notebooks and Diaries (1838). In The Columbia World of Quotations (1996).

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Reflection #296, Thomas Henry Huxley and Henrietta A. Huxley (ed.), Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T.H. Huxley (1907), 143.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always
insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is “At
Hand.”
— G. K. Chesterton
'A Glimpse of My Country', The Daily News. Collected in Tremendous Trifles (1920), 277.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
— John Ruskin
From Stones of Venice (1851, 1886), Vol. 3, 36.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only
as they lead to phenomena.
— John Ruskin
From Stones of Venice (1851, 1886), Vol. 3, 36.

Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art
form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time
we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.
— Freeman Dyson
Concluding remark from 'The Scientist As Rebel' American Mathemtical Monthly (1996), 103, 805. Reprinted in The Scientist as Rebel (2006), 17-18, identified as originally
written for a lecture (1992), then published as an essay in the New York Review.
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece
exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
— Victor Hugo
Quoted in Pierre Biquard, Frederic Joliot-Curie: The Man and his Theories (1961), trans. Geoffrey Strachan (1965), 168.

Science is our century's art.

— Horace Freeland Judson
The Search for Solutions (1980), 10.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

— Karl Kraus
Pro domo et Mundo, (1912), 83. Translated by Harry Zohn (ed.), in 'Riddles and Solutions', Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half-Truths: Selected Aphorisms (1976), 47. From
the original German, “Wissenschaft ist Spektralanalyse. Kunst ist Lichtsynthese.”

Science is the attempt to discern the order that underlies the chaos of nature; art is the attempt to discern the order that underlies the
chaos of man.
— Colin Wilson
In The Strength To Dream: Literature and the Imagination (1961), 197.

Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when
combined.
— Sir Ronald Ross
Quoted in The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid 1920-76 (1978), Vol. 2, 1360.

Science is the labor and handicraft of the mind; poetry can only be considered its recreation.
— Sir Francis Bacon
As quoted in Nathaniel Holmes, The Authorship of Shakespeare (1867), 198. Footnoted as Int. Globe, Works (Mont.), XV. 150.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.
— Mae C. Jemison
In online transcript of TED talk, 'Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together' (2002).

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
— John Ruskin
From Stones of Venice (1851, 1886), Vol. 3, 36.

Science, philosophy, religion and art are forms of knowledge. The method of science is experiment; the method of philosophy is speculation; the
method of religion and art is moral or esthetic emotional inspiration.
— Peter Demianovich Ouspensky
In 'Forms of Knowledge', Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought; a Key to the Enigmas of the World (1922), 231.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
— Friedrich von Schlegel
Aphorism 61 from Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797-1800). In Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary
Aphorisms (trans. 1968), 155.

Surrealists … are not exactly artists and we are not exactly men of science; … we are carnivorous fish … swimming between two kinds of water,
the cold water of art and the warm water of science.
— Salvador Dali
In Conquest of the Irrational (1935), 10.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should
miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. … The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the
world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
— Sir William Osler
In farewell address, Johns Hopkins University, 'The Fixed Period', as quoted in Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osier (1925), vol. 1, 666.

That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an
organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization
— Thomas Henry Huxley
'Prolegomena', Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays (1897), 45.

The Almighty lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is
as if he had said to the inhabitants of this globe that we call ours, “I have made an earth for man to dwell upon, and I have rendered the starry
heavens visible, to teach him science and the arts. He can now provide for his own comfort, and learn from my munificence to all, to be kind to
all, to be kind to each other.”
— Thomas Paine
In The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (27 Jan O.S. 1794), 44.

The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is
certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.
— Freeman Dyson
As quoted in Robert S. Root-Bernstein, Michele M. Root-Bernstein, Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People (2013), 11.

The anatomist presents to the eye the most hideous and disagreeable objects, but his science is useful to the painter in delineating even a
Venus or a Helen.
— David Hume
Inquiry Concerning the Human Understanding collected in The Philosophical Works of David Hume (1826), Vol. 4, 8.

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
— Thomas Berger
 Epigraph, without source citation, in The Art & Science of Assessing General Education Outcomes: A Practical Guide (2005), 1.

The Arts & Sciences are the Destruction of Tyrannies or Bad Governments. Why should a good government endeavour to depress what is its
chief and only support.
— William Blake
Marginal note (c. 1808) written in his copy of The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1798), on table of contents. As given in William Blake, Edwin John Ellis (ed.) and William
Butler Yeats (ed.), The Works of William Blake (1893), Vol. 2, 319.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
From Zanoni (1842), 6.

The canons of art depend on what they appeal to. Painting appeals to the eye, and is founded on the science of optics. Music appeals to the ear
and is founded on the science of acoustics. The drama appeals to human nature, and must have as its ultimate basis the science of psychology
and physiology.
— Oscar Wilde
In Letter (Jul 1883) to Marie Prescott, in Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde, The Writings of Oscar Wilde (1907), Vol. 15, 153-154.

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.
— Sir Peter B. Medawar
From 'Science and Literature', Pluto’s Republic (1984), 43.

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The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations—more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in
them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in
original science and original art.
— Jacob Bronowski
From Science and Human Values (1956), 30.

The expenditure [on building railways] of £286,000,000 by the people has secured to us the advantages of internal communication all but
perfect,—of progress in science and arts unexampled at any period of the history of the world,—of national progress almost unchecked, and of
prosperity and happiness increased beyond all precedent.
— George Stephenson
From 'Railway System and its Results' (Jan 1856) read to the Institution of Civil Engineers, reprinted in Samuel Smiles, Life of George Stephenson (1857), 512.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they
are predicted by science.
— Henry Thomas Buckle
'The Influence of Women on the Progress of Knowledge,', a discourse delivered at the Royal Institution (19 Mar 1858) reprinted from Fraser's Magazine (Apr 1858) in The
Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle (1872), Vol. 1, 4. Quoted in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and
Foreign Sources (1893), 426:46.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of
mystery–even if mixed with fear–that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the
manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms–
it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
— Albert Einstein
From 'What I Believe: Living Philosophies XIII', Forum and Century (Oct 1930), 84, No. 4, 193-194. Alan Harris (trans.), The World as I See It (1956, 1993), 5.

The focal points of our different reflections have been called “science”’ or “art” according to the nature of their “formal” objects, to use the
language of logic. If the object leads to action, we give the name of “art” to the compendium of rules governing its use and to their technical
order. If the object is merely contemplated under different aspects, the compendium and technical order of the observations concerning this
object are called “science.” Thus metaphysics is a science and ethics is an art. The same is true of theology and pyrotechnics.
— Denis Diderot
Definition of 'Art', Encyclopédie (1751). Translated by Nelly S. Hoyt and Thomas Cassirer (1965), 4.

The Foundation of Empire is Art & Science. Remove them, or Degrade them, & the Empire is No More. Empire follows Art, & not Vice Versa as
Englishmen suppose.
— William Blake
Marginal note (c. 1808) written in his copy of The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1798), at foot of first page of table of contents. As given in William Blake, Edwin John Ellis
(ed.) and William Butler Yeats (ed.), The Works of William Blake (1893), Vol. 2, 319.

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common heritage even of a most civilized society; and anyone working at the frontier of such science is in that sense a very long way from
home, a long way too from the practical arts that were its matrix and origin, as indeed they were of what we today call art.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Address at the close of the year-long Bicentennial Celebration of Columbia University (26 Dec 54). Printed in 'Prospects in the Arts and Sciences', Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists (Feb 1955), 52.

The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of “her manner of operation” changes according to
advances in the sciences.
— John Cage
A Year from Monday (1969), 31.

The great error of the 19th century, in morality as well as in science and art, has been to mingle and confound man and nature without pausing
to consider that in art as in science and morality he is a man only in so far as he distinguishes himself from nature and makes himself an
exception to it.
— Ferdinand Brunetière
As quoted in Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959 (1969), 122.

The history of Europe is the history of Rome curbing the Hebrew and the Greek, with their various impulses of religion, and of science, and of
art, and of quest for material comfort, and of lust of domination, which are all at daggers drawn with each other. The vision of Rome is the
vision of the unity of civilisation.
— Alfred North Whitehead
In 'The Place of Classics in Education', The Aims of Education and Other Essays (1929), 79.

The immediate object of all art is either pleasure or utility: the immediate object of all science is solely truth.
— Henry Thomas Buckle
Lecture (19 Mar 1858) at the Royal Institution, 'The Influence Of Women On The Progress Of Knowledge', collected in The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry
Thomas Buckle (1872), Vol. 1, 4. Published in Frazier’s Magazine (Apr 1858).

The instinct for collecting, which began as in other animals as an adaptive property, could always in man spread beyond reason; it could become
a hoarding mania. But in its normal form it provides a means of livelihood at the hunting and collecting stage of human evolution. It is then
attached to a variety of rational aptitudes, above all in observing, classifying, and naming plants, animals and minerals, skills diversely displayed
by primitive peoples. These skills with an instinctive beginning were the foundation of most of the civilised arts and sciences. Attached to
other skills in advanced societies they promote the formation of museums and libraries; detached, they lead to acquisition and classification by
eccentric individuals, often without any purpose or value at all.
— Cyril Dean Darlington
As quoted in Richard Fifield, 'Cytologist Supreme', New Scientist (16 Apr 1981), 90, No. 1249, 179; citing C.D. Darlington, The Little Universe of Man (1978).

The invention [of paper] has been of almost equal consequence to literature with that of printing itself; and shows how the arts and sciences,
like children of the same family, mutually assist and bring forward each other.
— John Aikin
In John Aikin and Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld, 'The Manufacture of Paper', Evenings at Home: Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened (U.S. Revised ed., 1839), 145. In its
Preface it was indicated this particular piece, written by Barbauld, was first added to the 15th London edition, posthumously, from her papers. The plan of work for the six
volumes in this series originated with Dr. John Aiken in 1792.

The logic of the subject [algebra], which, both educationally and scientifically speaking, is the most important part of it, is wholly neglected.
The whole training consists in example grinding. What should have been merely the help to attain the end has become the end itself. The result
is that algebra, as we teach it, is neither an art nor a science, but an ill-digested farrago of rules, whose object is the solution of examination
problems. … The result, so far as problems worked in examinations go, is, after all, very miserable, as the reiterated complaints of examiners
show; the effect on the examinee is a well-known enervation of mind, an almost incurable superficiality, which might be called Problematic
Paralysis—a disease which unfits a man to follow an argument extending beyond the length of a printed octavo page.
— George Chrystal
In Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science (1885), Nature, 32, 447-448.

The mathematician can afford to leave to his clients, the engineers, or perhaps the popular philosophers, the emotion of belief: for himself he
keeps the lyrical pleasure of metre and of evolving equations: and it is a pleasant surprise to him and an added problem if he finds that the arts
can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.
— George Santayana
In 'Revolution in Science', Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy (1933), 81.

The Mathematics, I say, which effectually exercises, not vainly deludes or vexatiously torments studious Minds with obscure Subtilties,
perplexed Difficulties, or contentious Disquisitions; which overcomes without Opposition, triumphs without Pomp, compels without Force, and
rules absolutely without Loss of Liberty; which does not privately over-reach a weak Faith, but openly assaults an armed Reason, obtains a total
Victory, and puts on inevitable Chains; whose Words are so many Oracles, and Works as many Miracles; which blabs out nothing rashly, nor
designs anything from the Purpose, but plainly demonstrates and readily performs all Things within its Verge; which obtrudes no false Shadow
of Science, but the very Science itself, the Mind firmly adhering to it, as soon as possessed of it, and can never after desert it of its own
Accord, or be deprived of it by any Force of others: Lastly the Mathematics, which depends upon Principles clear to the Mind, and agreeable to
Experience; which draws certain Conclusions, instructs by profitable Rules, unfolds pleasant Questions; and produces wonderful Effects; which
is the fruitful Parent of, I had almost said all, Arts, the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human
Affairs.
— Isaac Barrow
Address to the University of Cambridge upon being elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (14 Mar 1664). In Mathematical Lectures (1734), xxviii.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
— Theodore Roosevelt
African Game Trails (1910), 17.
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The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting
itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms — this
knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious
men.
— Albert Einstein
As quoted in Philip Frank, Einstein: His Life and Times (1947), chap. 12, sec. 5 - “Einstein’s Attitude Toward Religion.”

The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other
respects extremely interesting.
— Thomas Young
Lecture 39, 'On the Nature of Light and Colours', A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1845), Vol. 1, 359.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
— Sir Francis Bacon
The Great Instauration. In James Spedding, The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the Philosophical Works (1869), 48.

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The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the
practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences
— William Whewell
Aphorism 25, 'Aphorisms Respecting Knowledge', The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840), Vol. 1, xli.

The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society: navigation before the
eighteenth century, manufacture thereafter; and in our age I believe the liberation of personality. Whatever the part which scientists like to
act, or for that matter which painters like to dress, science shares the aims of our society just as art does.
— Jacob Bronowski
From The Common Sense of Science (1951), 145.

The reason it is so hard to attain to something good in any of the arts and sciences is that it involves attaining to a certain stipulated point; to
do something badly according to a predetermined rule would be just as hard, if indeed it would then still deserve to be called bad.
— Ludwig Leichhardt
Aphorism 53 in Notebook C (1772-1773), as translated by R.J. Hollingdale in Aphorisms (1990). Reprinted as The Waste Books (2000), 42.

The remotest discoveries of the Chemist, the Botanist, or the Mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the Poet’s art as any upon which it can
be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by
the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
— William Wordsworth
In W. J. B. Owen (ed.), Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1800, 1957), 124-125.

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by
favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things
of this world were alike despicable.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
'Agnosticism and Christianity'. Collected Essays (1900), 315.

The sciences and arts are not cast in a mold, but formed and shaped little by little, by repeated handling and polishing, as bears lick their cubs
into shape at leisure.
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
In Donald M. Frame (trans.), The Complete Essays of Montaigne (1958), 421.

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and
remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
As quoted in The Star (1959). Collected in Jonathon Green, Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982).

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to say that it
helps to establish or refute some general law; for science, though it starts from observation of the particular, is not concerned essentially with
the particular, but with the general. A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. In this the scientist differs from the artist, who, if
he deigns to notice facts at all, is likely to notice them in all their particularity.
— Bertrand Russell
In The Scientific Outlook (1931, 2009), 38.
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The spirit of science arises from the habit of seeking food; the spirit of art arises from the habit of imitation, by which the young animal first
learns to feed; the spirit of music arises from primeval speech, by means of which males and females are attracted to each other.
— Winwood Reade
In The Martyrdom of Man (1876), 443.

The structure known, but not yet accessible by synthesis, is to the chemist what the unclimbed mountain, the uncharted sea, the untilled field,
the unreached planet, are to other men … The unique challenge which chemical synthesis provides for the creative imagination and the skilled
hand ensures that it will endure as long as men write books, paint pictures, and fashion things which are beautiful, or practical, or both.
— Robert Burns Woodward
In 'Art and Science in the Synthesis of Organic Compounds: Retrospect and Prospect', in Maeve O'Connor (ed.), Pointers and Pathways in Research (1963), 41.

The subject matter of the scientist is a crowd of natural events at all times; he presupposes that this crowd is not real but apparent, and
seeks to discover the true place of events in the system of nature. The subject matter of the poet is a crowd of historical occasions of feeling
recollected from the past; he presupposes that this crowd is real but should not be, and seeks to transform it into a community. Both science
and art are primarily spiritual activities, whatever practical applications may be derived from their results. Disorder, lack of meaning, are
spiritual not physical discomforts, order and sense spiritual not physical satisfactions.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays (1965), 66.

The true excellence and importance of those arts and sciences which exert and display themselves in writing, may be seen, in a more general
point of view, in the great influence which they have exerted on the character and fate of nations, throughout the history of the world.
— Friedrich von Schlegel
In Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and Modern (1841), 10.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists. Unfortunately
poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are, therefore, speechless.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
In 'The Poet and the City' (1962), collected in The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (1965), 81.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
— Raymond Chandler
In 'Great Thought' (19 Feb 1938), The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer: A Gothic Romance, (1976), 7.

The world of mathematics, which you condemn, is really a beautiful world; it has nothing to do with life and death and human sordidness, but is
eternal, cold and passionless. To me, pure, mathematics is one of the highest forms of art; it has a sublimity quite special to itself, and an
immense dignity derived, from the fact that its world is exempt I, from change and time. I am quite serious in this. The only difficulty is that
none but mathematicians can enter this enchanted region, and they hardly ever have a sense of beauty. And mathematics is the only thing we
know of that is capable of perfection; in thinking about it we become Gods.
— Bertrand Russell
Letter to Helen Thomas (30 Dec 1901). Quoted in Nicholas Griffin (ed.), The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell (1992), Vol. 1, 224.

The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.
— Armand Trousseau
In Armand Trousseau and John Rose Cormack (trans.), Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris (1869), Vol. 2, 40.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called
mathematics, and the natural sciences.
— Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
'Scientist and Citizen', Speech to the Empire Club of Canada (29 Jan 1948), The Empire Club of Canada Speeches (29 Jan 1948), 209-221.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell—Art and Science.
But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.
— Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Spoken by fictional character Zanoni in novel, Zanoni (1842), 6.

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second
is art. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude
mess of folklore and emotional quackery.
— Raymond Chandler
In 'Great Thought' (19 Feb 1938), The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer: A Gothic Romance, (1976), 7.

There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more
satisfactory, still more emotionally exciting discovery that the theory is not quite right and has to be worked over again, very much as any
other work of art—a painting, a sculpture has to be worked over in the interests of aesthetic perfection. So there is no scientist who is not to
some extent worthy of being described as artist or poet.
— Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
'Scientist and Citizen', Speech to the Empire Club of Canada (29 Jan 1948), The Empire Club of Canada Speeches (29 Jan 1948), 209-221.

There is an art to science, and science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
— Isaac Asimov
Epigraph in Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), 251.

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all
countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into
its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies,
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— Lord Edward Clarendon
 'Essay on Industry' (1670). In Thomas Henry Lister, Life and Administration of Edward, first Earl of Clarendon (1838), Vol. 2, 566.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 473:44.

There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by
the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be
strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not
with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.
— Paul Klee
Quoted in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Feb 1959), 59, citing Bauhaus-Zeitschrijt (1928).

These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be
told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story—a story of infinite
addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
In The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination (1992), xv.

Though genius isn't something that can be produced arbitrarily, it is freely willed—like wit, love, and faith, which one day will have to become
arts and sciences. You should demand genius from everyone, but not expect it. A Kantian would call this the categorical imperative of genius.
— Friedrich von Schlegel
Critical Fragment 16 in Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments (1971), 144.

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of
human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
— Frederick Sanger
From Nobel Banquet Speech (10 Dec 1980).

Under the flag of science, art, and persecuted freedom of thought, Russia would one day be ruled by toads and crocodiles the like of which
were unknown even in Spain at the time of the Inquisition.
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
— Maria Mitchell
In Phebe Mitchell Kendall (ed.), Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals (1896), 186.

We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary
knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.
— James Boswell
In The Life of Samuel Johnson (1820), Vol. 1, 218. The Latin phrase translates as “what people do.”

We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced
to principles; art is knowledge reduced to practice. The knowing and doing, however, are distinct. ... Your knowledge, therefore, is useless unless
you cultivate the art of healing. Unfortunately, the scientific man very often has the least amount of art, and he is totally unsuccessful in
practice; and, on the other hand, there may be much art based on an infinitesimal amount of knowledge, and yet it is sufficient to make its
cultivator eminent.
— Sir Samuel Wilks
From H.G. Sutton, Abstract of Lecture delivered at Guy's Hospital by Samuel Wilks, 'Introductory to Part of a Course on the Theory and Practice of Medicine', The Lancet
(24 Mar 1866), 1, 308

We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by
imitation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Lecture, second in a series given at Freeman Place Chapel, Boston (Mar 1859), 'Quotation and Originality', Letters and Social Aims (1875, 1917), 178-179.

What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the
beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet,
rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.
— Benjamin Disraeli
In Coningsby: Or The New Generation (1844), Vol. 2, Book 4, Ch.1, 2.

What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the
beautiful. … There are great truths to tell, if we had either the courage to announce them or the temper to receive them.
— Benjamin Disraeli
In Coningsby: or the New Generation (1844), Vol. 2, Book 4, Chap. 1, 2.

What is truth? In matters of religion it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of
art it is one’s last mood.
— Oscar Wilde
In 'The Critic As Artist', Oscariana: Epigrams (1895), 8. Also in Sebastian Melmoth (1908), 42.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what—eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it
is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
— Sarah Bernhardt
The Art of the Theatre (1924), 177.
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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the
most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand
Russell says, “one at least of our nobler impulses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world.”
— G. H. Hardy
In A Mathematician's Apology (1940, 2012), 43.

Whereas history, literature, art, and even religion, all have national characters and local attachments, science alone of man’s major intellectual
interests has no frontiers and no national varieties; that science, like peace, is one and indivisible.
— Sir Henry Dale
From Pilgrim Trust Lecture (22 Oct 1946) delivered at National Academy of Science Washington, DC. Published in 'The Freedom of Science', Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Society (25 Feb 1947), 91, No. 1, 72.

Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess
of folklore and emotional quackery.
— Raymond Chandler
In 'Great Thought' (19 Feb 1938), The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer: A Gothic Romance, (1976), 7.

Women have absolutely no sense of art, though they may have of poetry. They have no natural disposition for the sciences, though they may
have for philosophy. They are by no means wanting in power of speculation and intuitive perception of the infinite; they lack only power of
abstraction, which is far more easy to be learned.
— Friedrich von Schlegel
From Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797-1800). As translated by Luis H. Gray in Kuno Francke and Isidore Singer (eds.), The German Classics: Masterpieces of
German Literature Translated Into English (1913), Vol. 4, 177.

You are surprised at my working simultaneously in literature and in mathematics. Many people who have never had occasion to learn what
mathematics is confuse it with arithmetic and consider it a dry and arid science. In actual fact it is the science which demands the utmost
imagination. One of the foremost mathematicians of our century says very justly that it is impossible to be a mathematician without also being
a poet in spirit. It goes without saying that to understand the truth of this statement one must repudiate the old prejudice by which poets are
supposed to fabricate what does not exist, and that imagination is the same as “making things up”. It seems to me that the poet must see what
others do not see, and see more deeply than other people. And the mathematician must do the same.
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
In letter (1890), quoted in S. Kovalevskaya and Beatrice Stillman (trans. and ed.), Sofia Kovalevskaya: A Russian Childhood (2013), 35. Translated the Russian edition of
Vospominaniya detstva (1974).

You may perceive something of the distinction which I think necessary to keep in view between art and science, between the artist and the man
of knowledge, or the philosopher. The man of knowledge, the philosopher, is he who studies and acquires knowledge in order to improve his own
mind; and with a desire of extending the department of knowledge to which he turns his attention, or to render it useful to the world, by
discoveries, or by inventions, which may be the foundation of new arts, or of improvements in those already established. Excited by one or
more of these motives, the philosopher employs himself in acquiring knowledge and in communicating it. The artist only executes and practises
what the philosopher or man of invention has discovered or contrived, while the business of the trader is to retail the productions of the
artist, exchange some of them for others, and transport them to distant places for that purpose.
— Joseph Black
From the first of a series of lectures on chemistry, collected in John Robison (ed.), Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry: Delivered in the University of Edinburgh (1807),
Vol. 1, 3.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally
written.
— Samuel Johnson
Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1826), Vol. 3, 29.

You tell me of an invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus. You explain this world to me with an image. I realize
that you have been reduced to poetry. … So that science that was to teach me everything ends up in a hypothesis, that lucidity founders in
metaphor, that uncertainty is resolved in a work of art.
— Albert Camus
In Albert Camus and Justin O’Brien (trans.), 'An Absurd Reasoning', The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1955), 15.

[In 1909,] Paris was the center of the aviation world. Aeronautics was neither an industry nor even a science; both were yet to come. It was an
“art” and I might say a “passion”. Indeed, at that time it was a miracle. It meant the realization of legends and dreams that had existed for
thousands of years and had been pronounced again and again as impossible by scientific authorities. Therefore, even the brief and unsteady
flights of that period were deeply impressive. Many times I observed expressions of joy and tears in the eyes of witnesses who for the first
time watched a flying machine carrying a man in the air.
— Igor I. Sikorsky
In address (16 Nov 1964) presented to the Wings Club, New York City, Recollections and Thoughts of a Pioneer (1964), 5.

[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is itself
poetic. The current opinion that science and poetry are opposed is a delusion. ... On the contrary science opens up realms of poetry where to
the unscientific all is a blank. Those engaged in scientific researches constantly show us that they realize not less vividly, but more vividly, than
others, the poetry of their subjects. Whoever will dip into Hugh Miller's works on geology, or read Mr. Lewes's “Seaside Studies,” will perceive
that science excites poetry rather than extinguishes it. And whoever will contemplate the life of Goethe will see that the poet and the man of
science can co-exist in equal activity. Is it not, indeed, an absurd and almost a sacrilegious belief that the more a man studies Nature the less
he reveres it? Think you that a drop of water, which to the vulgar eye is but a drop of water, loses anything in the eye of the physicist who
knows that its elements are held together by a force which, if suddenly liberated, would produce a flash of lightning? Think you that what is
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the wondrously varied and elegant forms of snow-crystals? Think you that the rounded rock marked with parallel scratches calls up as much
poetry in an ignorant mind as in the mind of a geologist, who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago? The truth is, that those
who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Whoever has not in youth
collected plants and insects, knows not half the halo of interest which lanes and hedge-rows can assume. Whoever has not sought for fossils,
has little idea of the poetical associations that surround the places where imbedded treasures were found. Whoever at the seaside has not had
a microscope and aquarium, has yet to learn what the highest pleasures of the seaside are. Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves
with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena—care not to understand the architecture of the Heavens, but are deeply
interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!—are learnedly critical over a Greek ode, and pass by
without a glance that grand epic written by the finger of God upon the strata of the Earth!
— Herbert Spencer
Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical (1889), 82-83.

[T]here shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science.
— Walt Whitman
In Walt Whitman and William Michael Rossetti (ed.), 'Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass', Poems By Walt Whitman (1868), 46.

…the simplicity, the indispensableness of each word, each letter, each little dash, that among all artists raises the mathematician nearest to
the World-creator; it establishes a sublimity which is equalled in no other art,—Something like it exists at most in symphonic music.
— Ludwig Bolzmann
As quoted in Robert E. Moritz, 'Meaning, Methods and Mission of Modern Mathematics', The Scientific Monthly (May 1928), 26, No. 5, 424.

“Healing,” Papa would tell me, “is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing Nature.”
— Wystan Hugh Auden
From 'The Art of Healing' (1969), Epistle to a Godson: And Other Poems (1972), 7. (Auden’s father was a physician.) The memorial poem was written on the death of his
friend, Dr. David Protetch.

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