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Science vs. beauty?
From: Skeptical Inquirer
Date: 19950301
Author:Gardner, Martin
The tendency of literary men to belittle the role that scientific knowledge can play in deepening aesthetic appreciation demonstrates the gap that exists between the the fields of art and science. Famous poets such as e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson and William Wordsworth all have written verses that praise the beauty of nature and their disdain for scientific investigation which, to them, could only spoil that great moment of aesthetic revelation.
My previous column ("Literary Science Blunders," January-February 1995) was about the gulf that too often divides the culture of science from ...
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