Mario Vitale wrote: > I would like to add, from my experience in both fields, that science is in >some way mainly a search for 'truth', art is mainly a search for 'beauty'. > > But in some cases scientists can see some 'beauty' in their theories, >and artists can see some 'truth' in their art. > A citation from another author who, too, had experience in both fields: "During my years of teaching literature at Cornell and elsewhere I demanded of my students the passion of science and the patience of poetry. As an artist and scholar I prefer the specific detail to the generalization, images to ideas, obscure facts to clear symbols, and the discovered wild fruit to the synthetic jam". - Vladimir Nabokov's 1972 interview See http://www.lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter01.txt Yuri Tulupenko