Science and art are two distinct categories, but they are both children of man.One may not fully agree that science is something that exists and is simply discovered.Adoption or birth, science and art are human beings.
If they are all human beings, why are they so different and even hostile to each other?They are the two of them, the two of them, the two of them.Science is the collection of reason, and art is the crystallization of sensibility.Science and art are the result of man's pursuit of beauty. What is beauty?In a very moving article, The Meaning of Beauty in Precision Science, Heisenberg gave a definition of beauty.He said: "Beauty is the inherent harmony between parts and between parts and the whole.Simply put, "Beauty is harmony," I agree.Even if beauty is defined in this way, there can still be many kinds of beauty.Science adores the harmonious beauty of order, and art adores the harmonious beauty of order.Objectively, the two complement each other and do not conflict, but there is always prejudice, because few people can perfectly combine knowledge and action.
I have no intention of criticizing artists, only because they generally do not value knowledge and have too much arrogance and prejudice.Because the source of artistic creation is to amplify the sensibility.Li Bai likes to drink, hippies like hallucinogens, alcohol and drugs can put them into a psychedelic state, where sensibility is greatly stimulated and great works of art are easily created."Oh, learning, the devil knows what it is!Shakespeare said, and then plunged into script-writing.I remember that in one of the "Let's Talk", the writer Alai commented that a science literature lover's poem was too clear and clear.It can be seen that writers generally think that things that are hazy and meaningful are more intelligent.
Look at how artists describe science, and you can see what emotions are, what arrogance and prejudice are.
A self-possessed man, relying on intelligence comprehensive generalization!
A finger-fiddling slave intent on spying on his mother's grave?
Nature brings us the sweetness of knowledge; but our reason stirs.
Destroying the beautiful appearance of nature, conspiring to dissect and analyze them.
So says Wordsworth.
Why do some artists hate science?I think people can see one or two in Keats' poem:
At the touch of cold philosophy, all the fascinating things evaporate?
The rainbow in the sky, we know why she looks like that.
Angel's beautiful wings were touched by philosophy and immediately lost their beauty.
These verses echo L. Dickinson's words: "Where science appears, literature is excluded."”
A lot of things can be fascinating and beautiful when people know little about it and add subjective imagination.But when you understand and reproduce them as completely as Feynman, that mystery naturally disappears.So it's hateful science that makes the world more and more boring.Everyone knows that the world of God and God's existence must be more interesting.
Of course not all artists scoff at science, Da Vinci must have appreciated it, and his manuscripts proved to some extent that he was a scientist himself.Another example is Shelley, Whitehead said: "Shelley paints the mechanisms of action of nature with unparalleled accuracy and refinement in the history of English poetry.”
I have no intention of criticizing the artist, just an objective statement.If the artist is angry and tries to abandon these arrogance and prejudice, many good works of art may not be able to appear.It is these magnified sensibilities that give rise to works of art that resonate widely, because everyone has an emotional side.
There is always a reasonable part of the world that occupies an overwhelming position.It allows them to see the world completely rationally, this boring world.Newton was one such person, and although there was much controversy about Newton's character, there were some shortcomings that were probably not controversial: too insensitive to the world, too uninterested in art to really understand others.Newton's words may sum up the general view of scientists: one is 'very cow' and the other is 'dull'.Later generations of scientists also gave the impression that they were too wooden.Imagine facing a boring world, what is worth cheering about?This is the world of scientists, a world of reason.It is rare to see famous scientists criticizing art, and the reason is obvious.The world is boring to them, who is art and how can they care?
Science and art each have their own home ground, and now it seems that science dominates the development of society; art dominates the joys and sorrows of the people.Here we can see another different characteristic of science and art, science is directional and constantly developing; art is directionless and diffuses around.This may be another manifestation of reason and sensibility, which try to find a direction, sensibility obsessed with wandering aimlessly.
The world is uninteresting in terms of reason; man is prejudiced in terms of sensibility.Therefore, it is necessary to combine reason and sensibility to create an interesting and colorful world.Let science and art coexist.I'm sure a lot of people think that way, that's an optimist.A pessimist may wonder how such a good thing can happen in the world, and it is in vain to try to merge the two; and if a greedy person wants to own both, he will suffer for most of his life.If you want art to be intoxicated, don't think objectively; if you want science to be clear, don't be intoxicated.Whether science and art can live in harmony, everyone has their own answer.