Greg Graffin Quotes

You could say science also is an art.

The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world.

The merging of science and art is at the core of what we do.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

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.

Art is science in the flesh.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

It is so stimulating for young children to hear someone who does science talking about it. It can be so exciting and inspiring. It is easy to get younger school children enthused about science.

You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.