"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, Stimulating progress, Giving birth to evolution." Albert Einstein (1929)
The primal instincts for a human is to survive, and we are always searching for improved knowledge and information to strengthen ourselves and increase this chance.
Science and Art may seem to some people as being on opposite sides of the spectrum. In most cases they may be right.
You would imagine the Arts being more flourishing in creativity and innovation. You would stereotypically think of an arty person to be dancing about, singing, drawing or creating something; essentially being more expressive as a person and spontaneous.
Whereas
You would imagine science as being more exact and precise and more highly concerned with accuracy of results and findings. A person in science would stereotypically be more analytical, and would only believe something with the proof of evidence. More fascinated in nature, the growth and development of life and laws, but also why this happens.
But could they possibly be more closely related than you think? It seems impossible to say one is correct and one is wrong. Dr Mae Jemison both scientist and artist (astronaut and medical doctor, Art collector and Dancer) states in her Ted Talks presentation below that Arts and Science are not separate. She believed that they are in some ways connected. She also believed that we need to reconnect these two things today as they work together "Scientists are also creative and artists are analytical!". The main thing is, we can't live without either one or the other. They are both just as important! Wouldn't life be boring and blank if there was no creativity or Arts? and wouldn't life be full of colour and artistic but not work or make sense if without Science? "They are manifestations of the same thing". They compliment each other and work alongside each other. Life would not work without one or the other.
References:
Einstein, A (1931). Cosmic Religion and other opinions and Aphorisms. New York: Covici-Friede. p97.
You would imagine the Arts being more flourishing in creativity and innovation. You would stereotypically think of an arty person to be dancing about, singing, drawing or creating something; essentially being more expressive as a person and spontaneous.
Whereas
You would imagine science as being more exact and precise and more highly concerned with accuracy of results and findings. A person in science would stereotypically be more analytical, and would only believe something with the proof of evidence. More fascinated in nature, the growth and development of life and laws, but also why this happens.
But could they possibly be more closely related than you think? It seems impossible to say one is correct and one is wrong. Dr Mae Jemison both scientist and artist (astronaut and medical doctor, Art collector and Dancer) states in her Ted Talks presentation below that Arts and Science are not separate. She believed that they are in some ways connected. She also believed that we need to reconnect these two things today as they work together "Scientists are also creative and artists are analytical!". The main thing is, we can't live without either one or the other. They are both just as important! Wouldn't life be boring and blank if there was no creativity or Arts? and wouldn't life be full of colour and artistic but not work or make sense if without Science? "They are manifestations of the same thing". They compliment each other and work alongside each other. Life would not work without one or the other.
References:
Einstein, A (1931). Cosmic Religion and other opinions and Aphorisms. New York: Covici-Friede. p97.
TED, Jemison M. (2002). Teach arts and sciences together. Available: https://www.ted.com/talks/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_together. Last accessed 10/05/2014.
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