blinded by science

[anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>"We believe implicitly that the scientist is one type, the artist a
>radically different one. In fact, the scientific and artistic =
>personalities
>overlap more than they differ, and the higher we shimmy into the leafy
>canopy of talent, the closer the two enterprises seem. The typical
>first-year physics text never uses the word beauty, but it is no =
>accident
>that Richard Feynman's text -- the work of a great scientist and one of =
>the
>century's great books -- uses it all the =
>time."
>From Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of
>Technology

good quote David! also a good book I've been meaning to read

this quote touches on a statement I made about my music having the
emotional content of a calculus textbook...I personally find higher
mathematics to be very beautiful/elegant and evocative of "emotions" that
are more related to intellectual joy than love, sadness or happiness, etc...

a good book on the similarity of scientsists and artists is "Two Cultures"
by CP Snow


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