Irony works both ways, of course. Here's Michael Yudkin being ironic about science/arts cooperation from the artist's point of view:
"To read Dickens, or to hear Mozart, or to see a Titian can be in itself a rewarding activity, but to find out what is meant by acceleration is to gain a piece of factual information which in itself has no value."
David
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How's this for science/arts cooperation?
"I do not see how a man can work at the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand." Paul Dirac
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From: MK [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 February 2002 16:48
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Subject: Today's Guardian
Easy to miss it, but two superstars on the exposition front feature in
today's OnLine Guardian.
Physics + Dirac = poetry
Graham Farmelo
February 21 2002
Who was the 20th century's greatest English-speaking poet? TS Eliot, WB
Yeats, Sylvia Plath? Not for me; my nomination is the theoretician Paul
Dirac, honorary poet laureate of modern physics.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4359830,00.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K1262617
The gravity of the centres
John Durant
February 21 2002
This country is currently engaged in the largest and most important
experiment in science communication it has ever undertaken. Nobody
devised this experiment; nobody planned, costed or predicted its final
outcome.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4359831,00.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R4063217
MK
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