"Science and art have that in common..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
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“With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.”
“Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.”
“How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.”
More on Science
“Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.”
“It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.”
“There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.”
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“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.”
“I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.”
“Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.”