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“Study the science of art and the art of science.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci: "Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses and especially, learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else" and "only through experimentation can we know anything."

Science is the king of art subjects. It is the art of inventions, discoveries, innovations and gaining more knowledge.

"Science is the new art".

Science-art: selling art to scientists and science to artists.

Education is all about learning all those you want to learn and applying wherever possible.

Albert Einstein’s quote — “the greatest scientists are artists as well”.

Science has always relied on visual representation to convey key concepts.

‘If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.’ - Albert Einstein

Math is undeniably artistic

An interdisciplinary researcher must face the challenge of being proficient in two (or multiple) different research areas! Not only must s/he be familiar with key principles and methodology in each area, but also understand baseless "biases" and "dogmas" that are a result of inbreeding, and struggle to fight these, as new knowledge emerges from her/his research. An unenviable task indeed! The pointlessness of evaluating such researchers work with conventional metrics should be aptly emphasized.

“The best scientists, engineers and mathematicians are incredibly creative in their approaches to problem-solving and application development”.

"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her." – Jacob Bronowski

In scientia veritas, in arte honestas — in science truth, in art honor

E.W. Sinnot, the American biologist and philosopher: "Stored images in the mind are the basis for new creative ideas."

Science based art and literature : communicating complexity through simplicity - Krishna

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
--Physicist and Violinist Albert Einstein

Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything by Anonymous

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art - Will Durant

Life itself is a beautiful interaction between art and science. You can't escape it! - Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa

"The Science of Art is like putting a microphone to the whispers of creativity that echo through the halls of every research laboratory fused with the late night musings of the artists in their studios" - Sachi DeCou

“Every Science begins as Philosophy and ends as Art, it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement”- Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

Scientists can be artists as well, while they submit their academic papers, and theses they often draw their own illustrations!

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.
-Eckhart Tolle

Science has enabled the kind of art we’ve never before seen.

Without the arts, science is hobbled. Without science, art is static.

John Maeda wrote of Leonardo da Vinci’s observations that art is the queen of science.

“Science is as much cultural as art is cultural,”

Art is science made clear (what!).

"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle.

Science is a search for answers, based on logic, rationality and verification. Its workplace is the laboratory.

In contrast, art is a search for questions, based on intuition, feeling and speculation. Its workplace is the studio.

DaVinci himself said, "Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. "
"Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on canvas, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order." - Luis J. Rodriguez.

For Dawkins, understanding the science behind natural phenomena (and sometimes being reminded of how much more we have yet to learn or discover) can still make our encounters with them sublime. From this point of view, science is the champion of artistic creativity, not its enemy.

"Scientists and artists are both trying to get a better understanding of the world around us, but they are doing it through different lenses,"

It takes many skills to achieve truly remarkable things. A diverse view to solving problems is best.

You need a deep understanding of science to actually manipulate concepts in novel ways and get creative in science - Krishna

"If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint ... and that voice will be silenced, but only by working."
-- Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, 28 October 1883.

"The line between art and science is a thin one, and it waves back and forth”

"One of the most common misconceptions about science is that it isn't creative — that it is inflexible, prescribed or boring. Actually, creativity is a crucial part of how we do science"!

"All knowledge has its origins in perception." Da Vinci.

“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it; and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful." Jules Henri Poincare

The beauty of art lies in the inimitable creativity of the artist and in the interpretation of the beholder.

"Artists see things one way and scientists another and the really interesting thing is in what's in between."

Einstein’s support of artistic endeavors is both well-known and well-documented.

“The greatest scientists are artists as well,” he once said.

Atul Dodiya (Indian Artist) : Life is beautiful as a painter. Changing colour, observing life and paying attention to every detail that we’re exposed to, and then giving our own vision to it… Nothing gives me more joy.

Art : You accomplish a task that is called art as there is no specific postulates or guidelines.

Science : You do the work with a set of guidelines.

"Change and risk-taking are normal aspects of the creative process. They are the lubricants that keep the wheels in motion. A creative act is not necessarily something that has never been done; it is something you have never done."
-- Nita Leland in The Creative Artis

Pablo Picasso once said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal." All creative artists build upon the work established by the masters before them. ( Not me!- Krishna)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep – Scott Adams

‘Art makes science come alive for students’

Albert Einstein - “The greatest scientists are artists as well”.

“ Science art shows some of the incredible natural beauty that researchers in life sciences see every day in their work.”

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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 15, 2013 at 8:48am: http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Genius-of-Da-Vinci-on-...
Genius of Da Vinci on display

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 15, 2013 at 8:42am: http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20131014/WDH06/310140155/U...|mostpopular|text|FRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1
UWMC's 'Learning to Fly' festival will showcase science, art of flight: column
Look through the sketchbooks of Leonardo da Vinci from 1474 through 1515, and you will see portrait drawings, physiological studies of the human reproductive system, aerodynamic observations next to designs for catapults and flying machines followed by atmospheric and hydraulic studies. During da Vinci’s time, drawing was a way to observe all kinds of phenomena and to answer puzzling questions, including this one: How do birds fly?

Rocket forward to 2012 and early 2013 when Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted images from the International Space Station of the earth’s terrain. His comments on the beauty of these forms and their similarity to abstract art make clear the connection between art and science. Communicating experiences from new perspectives still provokes and inspires us today.

With the same crossdisciplinary curiosity that da Vinci and Hadfield demonstrated, this month the University of Wisconsin Marathon County is launching “Learning to Fly,” a monthlong series of lecture and fine arts programs that will explore the idea of flight from all kinds of vantage points. Public presentations will range from vocal jazz performances to lectures and discussions on the physics of flight, the history of cargo cult cultures, novelistic reinterpretation of biblical stories and whooping crane reintroduction efforts.

What I find exciting about the series is that our programs feature experts in their fields from throughout the area, Wisconsin and beyond. Visit http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/aboutUWMC/events/LFA/ for a complete schedule of events

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 14, 2013 at 8:56am: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/10/light_...
It’s a different sort of exhibit filling galleries at the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art through Dec. 22
“This is the age of photonics instead of electronics,” he said, as he installed holograms that, energized by the gallery’s lights, would reveal the images he captured in light-sensitive panels two years ago.

“It’s like a star; what you see in the sky is what it looked like 10,000 years ago.
Then there is “L is for Laser: Five Kinetic Laser Art Works,” a darkened gallery that at first glance looks like a Pink Floyd arena show. But the works are far more advanced and in many cases interactive, responding to the movements of its viewers.

Created by Mike Gould of Ann Arbor, “it’s a true merge of science and art,”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 14, 2013 at 8:54am: The art of a scientist:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/article/Man-of-science-is...

Huang's scientific background elevates his artwork as well.

“Artists are constantly dealing with geometry and color theory — even physics,” he said. “That's why classical paintings are timeless, because they follow the physical laws.”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 14, 2013 at 8:38am: http://www.reading.ac.uk/art/Bayer150anniversary/?goback=.gde_16367...!
How scientists look at art

This research project is being conducted to celebrate the 150 Year Anniversary of life sciences company Bayer. The study is in experimental aesthetics, and is being conducted by Bayer in conjunction with the University of Reading. It is designed to investigate artistic preferences.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 13, 2013 at 6:21am: http://www.hatchfund.org/project/open_sesame#!
An artist's view on heart and heart beat

This an art project about the vitality of the Human Heart. It is a sculpture of a garment construction that is also robotic

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 12, 2013 at 8:13am: http://scienceline.org/2013/10/bio-artist/
“Bio-Artist” paints life in the laboratory
With living tissue as his artistic medium, Oron Catts aims to put science into perspective.

Oron Catts knits tiny sweaters from cells and grows toy dolls from living tissue, but the “bio artist” wants to make sure his intentions are clear. “I’m not interested in science,” he recently announced to a room brimming with scientists, “I’m interested in life.”

Catts spoke on September 30th at CUriosity3, a Columbia University seminar program that encourages dialogue between scientists and artists. A bohemian with an irreverent, jaunty goatee that contrasts his slick ponytail, Catts is a member of the BioArt movement, which promotes living tissue as an artistic medium. He’s a bioengineer without any formal laboratory experience, a Harvard researcher without a PhD. He embodies the enigma of a science artist.

While the CUriosity3 program aims to connect art and science, the event highlighted gaps in perspective that are difficult to bridge. Catt’s foil was Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a biomedical engineer at Columbia, who provided an overview of stem cell research while regularly trying to squeeze in artistic references. Armed with high-definition micrographs of bright green stem cells, Vunjak-Novakovic’s unfaltering message was that “even cells are artistic.” The crowd applauded as a digital image of cancer cells clustered into a mangled smiley face on the screen behind her –unimpeachable evidence, she said, that science can be pretty.

Catts took the microphone and shrugged. “Art.” he said, “It’s not so much about making pretty pictures.”

He explained that science art is less about aesthetic beauty than it is about arming non-scientists with the context to confront new technology and research. “There is no cultural language to explain where we are at the moment,” he said. According to Catts, scientists are perpetually surrounded by marvels, from stem cells to prosthetic organs, that challenge our traditional definitions of life. And researchers are ill-equipped to capture the societal implications of their work or convey its importance to outsiders.

Determined to confront these marvels at their source, Catts trained as an artist while at several scientific laboratories. He eventually came to believe that his art could accomplish feats that science alone could not. “Artists have a license –that scientists do not have— to speculate and engage without the necessity of doing anything functional,” he said.

And with this license to speculate, Catts has added meatless frog-cell steaks and solar-powered fountains to his repertoire of fleshy dolls and cellular sweaters. His artistic portfolio spans a gamut of scientific fields, incorporating genetics, engineering and cell biology, but never, Catts insists, producing anything remotely “pretty.”

A science artist’s job, he asserted, is to help people cope with the constantly changing world, not to dazzle them with antiquated oil paints or fancy micrographs. For Catts, science art is not about beauty. Instead, he says, it’s a “lifelong search to discover what life is.”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 12, 2013 at 8:05am: http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/waay-firstnews-at-thursday-october...
On 10th Oct, 2013,

Today at 4...art and science collide this month at the US Space and Rocket Center.

The USSRC is teaming up with the Arts Council for the Fall for the Arts Campaign, proving that the two do go hand in hand.

This Saturday, kids can learn all about fall foliage at Saturday Scientist. There will be two workshops, one at 10:30 a.m. and another at noon. Admission is $10 for members and $12 for non-members. It is a great way for kids to learn about why the leaves on the trees change color this time of year. We will also get the details on the new exhibit opening in a few weeks, featuring the art of Da Vinci. For more information log on to www.rocketcenter.com for more.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 12, 2013 at 8:03am: http://readme.readmedia.com/Art-historian-Dr-Elizabeth-Kessler-to-s...
Art historian Dr. Elizabeth Kessler to speak at Geneva College on October 24-25
Dr. Kessler will discuss the relationship between art and science, as seen in Hubble Space Telescope photographs and other images.

BEAVER FALLS, PA (10/10/2013)(readMedia)-- Dr. Elizabeth Kessler, an art historian who focuses on the visual culture of science and its relationship to art, will speak at Geneva College. She will be at Skye Lounge in the Student Center for a 7:30 p.m. lecture on Thursday, October 24, "Displaying the Beauty of the Truth: Hubble Images as Art and Science." In conjunction with Geneva's Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Visit Day, she will present "Postcards into Outer Space" in Skye Lounge at 10:10 a.m. on Friday, October 25.

Kessler currently teaches art history at Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and has held fellowships at Stanford University and the Smithsonian Institute National Air and Space Museum. Her first book, Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime, which examines the aesthetics of deep space images and their invocation of the visual language of the sublime, was published in 2012.

The book, according to its synopsis, "examines the Hubble's deep space images, highlighting the resemblance they bear to nineteenth-century paintings and photographs of the American West and their invocation of the visual language of the sublime."

Kessler's background in art has pointed her in the unique direction of science. She maintains that the aesthetics of science must be understood in order for one to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the space telescope's impact.

Kessler is coming to the college as part of the Geneva Visiting Artist and Lecture Series. Her appearances are free and open to the public.

Geneva College invites students to accept the challenge of an academically excellent, Christ-centered education. Offering nearly 40 undergraduate majors, Adult Degree Programs with fully online and campus-based options, and seven graduate degrees, Geneva has programs that place students at the forefront of higher learning. Adhering to the inerrancy of Scripture, a Geneva education is grounded in God's word as well as in a core curriculum designed to prepare students vocationally to think, write and communicate well in today's world.