Science & Art Quotes
Most popular science & art quotes
![There is an art to science, and science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole. - Isaac Asimov quote.](/img/q/70/170A-there-is-an-art-to-science-science-art-two-are-isaac-asimov.png)
There is an art to science, and science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
![Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.](/img/q/37/337A-science-and-art-belong-to-the-whole-world-barriers-nationality-goethe.png)
Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them.
![Art is I; science is we. - Claude Bernard quote.](/img/q/39/339A-art-is-i-science-is-we-claude-bernard.png)
Art is I; science is we.
![I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don't believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don't see that. People bring these things together a lot. Dr. Land at Polaroid said, "I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science," and l've never forgotten that. I think that that's possible, and I think a lot of people have tried. - Steve Jobs quote.](/img/q/02/15602A-ive-never-believed-that-theyre-separate-leonardo-da-vinci-was-steve-jobs.png)
I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don't believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don't see that. People bring these things together a lot. Dr. Land at Polaroid said, "I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science," and l've never forgotten that. I think that that's possible, and I think a lot of people have tried.
![Art is meant to disturb; science reassures. - Georges Braque quote.](/img/q/67/26367A-art-is-meant-to-disturb-science-reassures-georges-braque.png)
Art is meant to disturb; science reassures.
![Art is science made clear. - Jean Cocteau quote.](/img/q/85/26385A-art-is-science-made-clear-jean-cocteau.png)
Art is science made clear.
![Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul. - Maxim Gorky quote.](/img/q/07/26407A-just-as-science-is-the-intellect-world-art-is-its-maxim-gorky.png)
Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
![It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science. - William Blake quote.](/img/q/50/39250A-it-is-the-greatest-of-crimes-depress-true-art-science-william-blake.png)
It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
![Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. - Bertolt Brecht quote.](/img/q/52/39252A-art-and-science-coincide-insofar-as-both-aim-improve-lives-bertolt-brecht.png)
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure.
![Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. - Cyril Connolly quote.](/img/q/54/39254A-today-the-function-of-the-artist-is-bring-imagination-science-cyril-connolly.png)
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
![Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. - Will Durant quote.](/img/q/55/39255A-every-science-begins-as-philosophy-and-ends-as-art-will-durant.png)
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
![He who posseses science and art, has religion; he who possesses neither science nor art, let him get religion. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.](/img/q/57/39257A-he-who-posseses-science-and-art-has-religion-he-who-goethe.png)
He who posseses science and art, has religion; he who possesses neither science nor art, let him get religion.
The truths of Science become more meaningful and more beautiful when analyzed and explained; exactly the reverse occurs with the truths of Art.
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the "higher life."
![Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. - Thomas Huxley quote.](/img/q/63/39263A-science-and-literature-are-not-two-things-but-two-sides-thomas-huxley.png)
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
![Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul. - John Ruskin quote.](/img/q/64/39264A-science-deals-exclusively-with-things-as-they-are-themselves-art-john-ruskin.png)
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
![Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena. - John Ruskin quote.](/img/q/65/39265A-science-has-to-do-with-facts-art-with-phenomena-science-john-ruskin.png)
Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.
![Imagination comes first in both artistic and scientific creations, but in science there is only one answer and that has to be correct. - James D. Watson quote.](/img/q/66/39266A-imagination-comes-first-in-both-artistic-scientific-creations-but-science-james-d-watson.png)
Imagination comes first in both artistic and scientific creations, but in science there is only one answer and that has to be correct.
Art was the mother of Science.
![The great men of science are supreme artists. - Martin H. Fischer quote.](/img/q/45/53045A-the-great-men-of-science-are-supreme-artists-martin-h-fischer.png)
The great men of science are supreme artists.