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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 6, 2013 at 10:42am: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-opinion/lleucu-sienc...
When two words collide
5 Oct 2013 06:30

Scientists are often excellent writers, says Literature Wales boss Lleucu Siencyn, who explores the common ground between art and science

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 6, 2013 at 9:00am: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/scientists-students-create-geneti...
Scientists, students create genetically engineered artworks
Four years ago, scientists at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore began collaborating with art students to try and combine artistic sensibility and new science to engineer gene functions in living organisms.

The first year of collaboration saw NCBS scientists help students from Srishti School of Art Design and Technology create bacteria that could emit the smell of freshly ploughed earth or the first monsoon rain. The collaboration using techniques now widely used in the field of synthetic biology built genetically engineered bacteria in the lab that could produce geosmin, a substance responsible for the captivating smell of fresh rain on dry soil.

The 'Smell of Rain' science-art production by NCBS and Srishti went on to win an award at the prestigious International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Competition held annually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.

Every year now, scientists at NCBS collaborate on projects with art students to create genetically engineered artworks.

These science-art collaborations in the realm of synthetic biology have opened a floodgate of knowledge in the field of genomics, resulting in scientists being able to engineer DNA functions of their liking — much like computer chip designers — and incorporating these lab-created DNA into living organisms like the bacteria E.Coli.

The field is advancing so rapidly that synthetic biology labs have become almost hobby labs with biosafety certifications in the US.

"Richard Dawkins writes of evolution as a 'blind watchmaker', paradoxically capable of generating complicated entities through a process of random variation and natural selection. Synthetic biology works in the opposite direction, to design and construct complicated devices with desired properties by borrowing parts from the watchmaker's toolkit," says Mukund Thattai from the NCBS biological systems modelling lab who has put together the science-art collaborations.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 6, 2013 at 8:58am: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/oct/05/steam-science-art-exhibi...
Science & Art exhibition at Center for the Arts Bonita Springs
What does Origami have to do with geometry? Why is a worm considered art to some? How is music created from a micro-chip? And how can a nanometer of water become a fun, interactive experience?

The Centers for the Arts Bonita Springs opening reception for “Science & Art,” an exhibition where visitors can expect to see, hear and interact with works of art that illustrate how science and art intersect in real life, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11. The reception offers the public the opportunity to view the exhibition while enjoying refreshments and entertainment. The opening reception includes a campus-wide Open House featuring member faculty and visiting artists’ demonstrations and displays in the campus studios.

Through “Science & Art,” guests can explore how art is integral to innovation and how “STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)” education is enhanced through art. With art “STEM” education transforms into “STEAM,” a model needed for our youth to move forward into the next century.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 6, 2013 at 8:37am: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57606120-1/science-art-collide-...
Science, art collide in amazing psychedelic photos

Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner captures the beauty of basic scientific principles, using sound waves, ferro fluid, and magnets to create art.
First, he explained how he made sound waves visible. After placing a thin piece of tin foil over an ordinary speaker, he poured tiny crystals onto the foil. Playing sound through the speaker caused the crystals to jump, but that happens faster than the blink of an eye. He recorded the experiment with a camera that shoots 3,000 frames per second.

In the next project, he used psychedelic colors to explain magnetism. He poured ferro liquid -- a dark, oily liquid that contains tiny shards of metal -- onto a magnet. Ferro liquid is magnetic, so it quickly formed into a spiky lump. It is also hydrophobic, which means it doesn't mix with water. So when Oefner poured colored water onto the ferro liquid, the water spread out into tiny little canals. The resulting images look like a psychedelic slice of a brain.
In his final project, he poured whiskey into a large bottle, then dropped in a match. The resulting burst of fire is gone in a flash, but stopped in time, the image resembles a smoky head of cauliflower.

"Those three projects are based on very simple scientific phenomena, such as magnetism, sound waves, the physical properties of a substance," Oefner said. "What I'm trying to do is show them in a poetic and unseen way, and therefore invite the viewer to pause for a moment and think about all the beauty that is constantly surrounding us."

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 4, 2013 at 9:14am: http://annearundel.patch.com/groups/schools/p/art-plus-physics-equa...
Art Plus Physics Equals Innovation at Glen Burnie High

A Glen Burnie High teacher combined physics and art to create a new lens to understand the concepts through, and received national recognition.
Butler's winning idea, "Art at the Speed of Light" combines the Anne Arundel County Public School system's drawing and painting curriculum with her high school's BioMedical Allied Health honors physics curriculum. The result is a class allowing students to study physics through a visual art lens.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 4, 2013 at 9:10am: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24327-dance-work-shows-how-ph...
Dance work shows how physics and art Collide@CERN
Up, down, spin …that's dancers at work at the premiere of Quantum, a contemporary dance piece inspired by particle physics. For extra drama, it was performed immediately above the CMS particle detector, one of the two experiments running on CERN's Large Hadron Collider to spot the Higgs boson.

Quantum will be performed at the Thèâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris, on 4, 5, 7, 8 November, 2013; there will be more performances in Annecy, France, and New York, in 2014.
The music for Quantum was created by composer and software developer Carla Scaletti using data from the LHC. Through a process known as data sonification, she mapped particle collision data from CERN's ATLAS detector to specific sounds. The result was a sporadic soundtrack that builds, layer on layer, to a series of crescendos throughout the dance.
Jobin was the second artist to take up a residency at CERN, following German artist Julius von Bismarck's stay last year.

To light Quantum, Jobin used four large, suspended lamps created by von Bismarck for his installation Versuch unter Kreisen. The lamps, swaying in a pendulum-like motion to the beat of Scaletti's music, cast a dramatic and ever-changing light on the performers throughout the dance.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 4, 2013 at 9:07am: http://ignite.me/articles/culture/art-mystery-finding-inspiration-c...
In technology, we see the marriage of art and science. In ancient Greece, the word for art was techne, from which technique and technology are derived—terms that are aptly applied to both scientific and artistic practices. The vision for a new technology may be inspired by art or science. Who knows how many technological developments and inventions indirectly stem from the minds of science fiction or futuristic screenwriters? (One example: Was the idea for Smartphones born from Star Trek’s handheld communicators? Nokia designed a mobile phone prototype to exactly resemble the communicator, and the locator functions on Star Trek communicators are remarkably similar to smartphone mapping software.) Through science, these sparks of imagination are transformed into real products. But the design – the look, feel and advertised image – of the technology is art.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 4, 2013 at 9:04am: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/3/4799212/fabian-oefner-science-art...
Fabian Oefner turns simple science into stunning art photography

Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner is known for using art to breathtakingly illustrate simple science at work. His latest series of images, called The Invisible Dimension, captures crystals of color rising in reaction to a speaker's soundwaves, magnetic liquid pushing paint into canals, and a flame of burning whiskey traveling through a glass bottle. In a recent TED talk, the artist explains the motivation behind his creations: "I'm trying to use these phenomena, and show them in a poetic and unseen way, and therefore invite the viewer to pause for a moment and think about all the beauty that is constantly surrounding us." You can see Oefner's artistic process demonstrated in his TED talk below, and check out his website to see The Invisible Dimension photos in high resolution
http://fabianoefner.com/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 4, 2013 at 8:38am: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/10/former-grateful-...!
Former Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Composes Music from the Sounds of the Universe

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/10/former-grateful-...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 4, 2013 at 6:45am: http://www.stanford.edu/~suemcc/TSR/styled-16/index.html
Art brought me into the world of medicine and science when I began volunteering seven years ago at a hospital back in Texas. What began as a day of portrait drawing became a new volunteer service for patients and families. From drawing over six hundred portraits of patients of all ages and with various illnesses, I realized that I could offer one small piece of comfort to patients in their struggles to find peace. I was most stricken by the realization that art has the power beyond representing an object and its physical beauty; it is filled with messages, and it is influential.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/absolutely-maybe/2013/10/02/dan...
Dancing, sand art and science: Communication by art-y means
using that for science communication?

Well, 24-year-old medical student Shelly Mingqian Xie, for one. Born in China, raised in Japan, Xie tells how she came to practise this art while doing medical research at Stanford, and shows a video performance here.

She comes to her medical studies after a major in biology and a minor in creative writing. It was while working with patients, though, that she “found the power of art in communication,” she said today. “I always loved art and science…and didn’t know why I had to choose one or the other.”

Xie gave her premier performance of two new stories on the impact of diseases and medical research on individuals and communities, in Washington DC at the headquarters of PAHO, the Pan American Health Organization (regional branch for the Americas of WHO). She’s collaborating with PAHO to communicate complex stories about disease, medicine, research and development.