From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Thu Dec 27 2001 - 10:43:48 MST
> Damien Broderick:
> Science, we suppose, is the disciplined
> quest for absolute, fundamental truth.
> All art, by contrast (to bend Walter Pater's
> famous dictum) aspires to the conditional.
And, paradoxically enough, art lasts forever,
timeless (Giotto, Bach, Homer, Phidias), while
science just reaches temporary truths, always
perfectible (Newton, Darwin, even Hilbert and
Euclid).
-s.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:12:52 MST