¶ Science: Gap Between Science and the Humanities
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Science: Gap Between Science and the Humanities:
“This irritated a great many other human beings, as for instance, artists who are philosophers in cry. They may not have had very much mathematics, but they are human beings-- who possibly may not have done very well in school-- but they really are full of a sense of importance of the Universe. And there were many principles to be discovered so they could persist. The artist said: I could deal in abstracts, and so they felt they could deal in principles. So we have the leaving to the nonrepresentational art. That is a move that comes along with the invalidity of models in science. It is something we call abstraction. It really wasn’t very abstract; many times it was a principle. An artist really did learn it was a principle and there would be inversions of equations and things like that. They were intuitive that conceptuality was there all the time. They had felt that there was something inadequate in the mathematics, that’s all… I’ve found time and again that artists have very powerful intuitions. They hadn’t quite learned their way around well enough in the languages of the various sciences, but I am sure they have been::intuiting that there was conceptual validity so they insisted on trying to make conceptual arrangements.”
