Art vs Science

Schopenhauer on the Essential Difference Between How Art and Science Reveal the World

“[Science] is like the innumerable showering drops of the waterfall, which, constantly changing, never rest for an instant; [art] is like the rainbow, quietly resting on this raging torrent.”

BY MARIA POPOVA

“We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us,”pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell marveled in her diary. “Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world,” Saul Bellow asserted in his exhilarating Nobel Prize acceptance speech, adding: “There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.” Art and science furnish dramatically different yet complementary lenses on what we call reality and grant us different ways of inhabiting it, of making sense of it, of living with its perennial mystery.

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https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/05/schopenhauer-art-science/

Also compare to the brilliant research in The Alphabet vs The Goddess:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/17/shlain-alphabet-goddess/

...and here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2QQuD62RxrU