Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Science explains what we know well; art covers the rest of human activity.
- In plain terms
- Science is clear rules art is the unexplained stuff.
- What can you take from it?
- Know the limits of what science can explain.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What can science explain today?
- Where does art begin?
Another view
Some things might become science later.
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The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.
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