Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"Language generates worlds; different languages generate different worlds."Humberto Maturana
"Language both reveals and conceals, creates and limits."Humberto Maturana
"To work with radioactive materials is to work with the poetry of physics."Chien-Shiung Wu
"The absence of design in nature is what makes design in human creativity all the more remarkable."Richard Dawkins
"Art and science are not opposed; both are ways of investigating and responding to reality."Richard Dawkins
"Art and science are not opposites; both seek to understand human experience."Francis Crick
"Art and science are not opposites; they are two languages describing the same beauty."Lise Meitner
"Nature wrote her autobiography in nucleotides and proteins."Carl Woese
"Every organism is a masterpiece of adaptation solved through millions of years."Carl Woese
"The work of science is both an art and a discipline."Lise Meitner
"Science is the art of listening to what the universe has always been trying to tell us."Jocelyn Bell Burnell
"Physics is poetry written in the language of mathematics."Vera Rubin
"Art captures truths that science cannot measure, yet both are essential to understanding existence."Richard Dawkins
"Art without honesty becomes mere decoration; science without wonder becomes mere machinery."Richard Dawkins
"We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."Alan Turing
"If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truly about the sea and leave out the poetry."Rachel Carson
"Art and science are not opposites; they are partners."George Washington Carver
"Art expresses what words alone cannot convey."George Washington Carver
"Art is the expression of the soul."Wright Brothers
"Science requires both the heart of an artist and the mind of a logician."Jocelyn Bell Burnell
"We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."Alan Turing
"The Analytical Engine might be said to weave algebraical patterns much as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers."Alan Turing
"Life is more poetic than any theory we have created about it."Lynn Margulis
"Music and mathematics are not as different as they seem."Wright Brothers
"Art is the expression of the inexpressible."Wright Brothers
"The writer must always serve truth, and truth demands that she write about what she has come to understand about the world."Rachel Carson
"The beauty of the earth does not diminish when we understand its mechanisms; rather, it deepens our appreciation."Rachel Carson
"There is an eloquence in nature that needs no words to be understood by those who have learned to listen."Rachel Carson
"Science gives man knowledge, which is power; art gives man wisdom, which is superiority."Alexander Graham Bell
"Art and science are not enemies, but partners in understanding."Gregor Mendel