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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 September 14, 2013 at 6:44am: Read this very boring article and the videos:

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3017297/how-fiction-influences-science-...

How Fiction Influences Science, According to Google Creative Lab's Robert Wong
By: Joe Berkowitz

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 12, 2013 at 9:19am: http://www.pr.com/press-release/514895
Brain Tumor Survivor Shares Art and Science Via New Online Business
Two years ago, Paul Franklin Smith underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor; today, he’s finishing a university degree and building a web-based business: Neuronico Art & Neuroscience.

Monterey, CA, September 11, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Paul feels fortunate to be alive and enjoying the stunning coastline near his Monterey, California home. He uses two hiking poles to steady himself as he moves along a trail overlooking the Carmel River Mouth; neck straps hold a pair of binoculars and a camera, which he pauses to use often. Paul takes obvious pleasure in being here, kneeling to examine flowers and foliage, raising his binoculars to study sea otters floating in the kelp offshore, or gazing across the water at fog drifting through the trees at Point Lobos.

“I remember rolling down a hallway on a gurney on my way to the operating room, knowing that I would either wake up after surgery or I wouldn’t,” says Paul. “I was calm; I had had time to think things through, and I felt I was in good hands medically. One can’t help but feel some sadness, though, at the gravity of the situation, and the loss of control. Just before arriving at the O.R., I saw windows on the left side of the hallway, and seeing the greenery of landscaping and a little patch of blue sky made me smile. A few feet later we made a right turn into the operating room, which seemed large and packed with equipment. The anesthesiologist said a few words, put a mask over my nose and mouth, and I was out.”

Fortunately, Paul did wake up after surgery, and green plants and blue sky still make him smile. He’s remarkably intact, too, but Paul says, “I am slightly altered. I’m better at some things, worse at others, and less stable on my feet. It was a life-changing experience finding out I had a brain tumor, having the operation, and deciding what to do with my life. Finishing my degree, even though I’m older than most students, became a priority, and creative expression now feels like a visceral need.” This creative drive keeps Paul inspired while builds the elaborate photo-based image compositions he offers as prints on his new website.

Paul has played piano since childhood, and enjoyed photography his entire adult life. With his website Neuronico Art & Neuroscience (http://SEE.neuronico.net), he has managed to share with the world his academic interests - psychology and neuroscience - and his creative efforts: stunning image compositions built from nature photographs which have been altered and combined in playful ways. Each is colorful and engaging, and each has a voice which, as Paul states with a wry smile, “clearly states something which can’t quite be put into words.”

Neuronico Neuroscience & Art (http://SEE.neuronico.net) is the first website to launch in a series exploring junctions between brain science and culture. It features the art and writing of Paul Franklin Smith, and offers art prints for purchase. Contact psmith@neuronico.net.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 12, 2013 at 9:16am: http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/18565/is-a-science-student-smarte...
Is a ‘science student’ smarter than an ‘arts student’?

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 12, 2013 at 9:04am: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/09/11/2776916/go-arts-artscience...
The Tacoma Art+Science Salon, an initiative of the University of Puget Sound usually held at Tacoma Art Museum, will move this month to UPS’ Kittredge Gallery, where the art focus will shift to music for an evening exploring computer-performed or generated music.

Seattle cellist David Balatero, Polish composer and musician Marcin Paczkowski and Seattle saxophonist Ivan Arteaga will perform music that’s either performed by computer or created via machine learning on both analog and digital devices. There will be food, conversation with the musicians and social time, as well as an informal panel of musicians and UPS professors to talk about the intersection of music and technology.

The salon is part of a monthly series on third Thursdays, bringing scientists, artists and interdisciplinary thinkers together through conversations and collaborations.

6-8:30 p.m. Sept. 19. Free. Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma. 253-879-3236, pugetsound.edu/artsci

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 12, 2013 at 8:26am: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/09/northwest_port...

Northwest Portland sculptor molds art from science

Julian Voss-Andreae works on his latest sculpture, a collagen molecule piece for Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Artist Julian Voss-Andreae gets very excited about proteins.

For his latest sculpture, he used compound cuts to make one-dimensional pieces of metal into three-dimensional objects — “just like amino acids do” to create proteins, he says. “It’s the same trick nature uses to go from 1-D to 3-D.”

The German artist has a deep science background. He studied physics, mathematics, and philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Edinburgh and Vienna, focusing on quantum physics for his graduate research. But when he moved to the United States with his Portlander wife, he returned to art. In 2004 he graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art in the Pearl District, and now he works out of a large warehouse in Portland's Northwest Industrial District.

His understanding of atoms and molecules gives his science-related and female form pieces depth that appeals to institutions like Rutgers University, which recently commissioned him to create a piece for its Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, a new facility that seeks to foster studies of complex biomolecular phenomena across disciplines — computational chemistry, structural biology, mechanistic enzymology, and bioinformatics.

The center’s founder, Dr. Helen M. Berman, is a fan of Voss-Andreae’s other science-related sculptures, fascinated that someone from the arts could do something so beautiful with science.

http://photos.oregonlive.com/4450/gallery/_northwest_portland_sculp...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 12, 2013 at 8:24am: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/485751/art-movement-stirs-science-town
Art movement stirs science town

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 11, 2013 at 9:14am: http://www.gizmag.com/cern-lhc-atlas-mural/28871/
ATLAS: At the crossroads of art and science
"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her." – Jacob Bronowski

The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is currently the Large Hadron Collider bridging the border of France and Switzerland. The control building of the ATLAS detector, one of two general purpose particle detectors built with the LHC, has found itself adorned with a magnificently bright mural. The story of how the mural came about provides a fascinating glimpse at the crossroads of art and science.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 11, 2013 at 8:53am: http://pacifica.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/new-arts-and-science...
New Arts and Science Center in Pacifica Hosts Conversation Series

The George Greenstein Institute launches "Courage by the Sea: The Minds of Ocean Heroes" this month at the Oceana Art Gallery in Pacifica.
Founder M.A. Greenstein, Ph.D., a life long mentor of creatives in applied neuroscience, brainfulness and design thinking, envisioned the institute and conceived the Inventio!Brains System to bring her experiences to a broad audience of people curious about their brain and how to make it work better for them.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 11, 2013 at 8:48am: http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/09/10/77912/
The Art of Steve Miller – Crossing the Line Between Art and Science
Rod MacKinnon, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist at Rockefeller University, was at New York’s Brookhaven National Laboratory studying the structures of human proteins, when his and Steve Miller’s worlds collided. Miller, an artist who splits his time between New York City and the Hamptons, was visiting Brookhaven to better understand the types of advanced imaging that scientists use.
The meeting inspired Miller to incorporate some of MacKinnon’s scientific notes and computer models into a series of paintings. It seemed logical to him to combine the creative output of an artist and a scientist. ”We’re all asking questions, trying to understand what forces make or shape who we are,” says Miller.

The pair had a similar interest, according to Marvin Heiferman, curator of an exhibition of 11 of Miller’s paintings now at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. “MacKinnon was investigating how potassium ions moved across cell membranes. Miller’s work engages itself with the crossing of borders as well: moving back and forth between photography and painting, shifting from micro to macro scale, combining representational and abstract imagery and what is theorized with what can be seen,” writes Heiferman in an introduction to the exhibition, aptly named “Crossing the Line.”
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/09/crossing-the-lin...