Artistic Science Quotes

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet, works like a bookkeeper, and writes like a journalist.

Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.

In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

The stage is the opposite: you are talking loud so you can project to the back row and you know the whole play. In a movie, you are scene-to-scene; you only know the purpose of that scene. On the stage, that is artistic science. It is real, it is loving, it is truthfully you. It is two different formulas to make two different art pieces, but it is all about truth.

A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic.

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

There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.

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.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.