Art & Science
There is no prominent character in all the annals of sacred or profane history whose prototype we cannot find in the half-fictitious and half-real traditions of bygone religions and mythologies. As the star, glimmering at an immeasurable distance above our heads, in the boundless immensity of the sky, reflects itself in the smooth waters of a lake,
... See moreThe fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery... See more
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Such a “glimmering perception” of nature’s interdependence, Humboldt observes, was always present in so-called “primitive” societies as kind of shadow form, intuited rather than investigated, until science emerged to illuminate its elemental truth through its process of “long and laborious observation.”
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
Science can, and does, get there eventually. It is just that the process is slow and laborious, and along the way dogmas can get stuck, and some people forget that that is all part of the process. But, that is all part of the process.
I Feel, Therefore I Understand: Humboldt on the Essence of Science and How to Read the Poetry of Nature
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