Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction,
they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in
other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up
knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
other fields, they grow less wise —even in their own field.
by Isaac Asimov,The Roving Mind
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
On Reason,Art and Science by Isaac Asimov;The Roving Mind
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