I was surprised to read so many negative responses to Matt Hawthorn's
request.
Do scientists really have so little love or knowlege of art and of the
rather wider way in which artists think?
As scientists we should not always try to define the world around us in the
rather limited and rigid way which we have been taught to in our training.
Science is constrained by what is physically possible, but art is only
constrained by our imagination and creativity.
I think it is an important lesson for scientists to learn that not everyone
sees and processes the world around them in the way that we do. This
impinges very heavily on the public's understanding of science. As
scientists we find it hard to understand the public's often irrational fear
of science (e.g. some aspects of genetic engineering), but to communicate
effectively with the public we must be able to understand their less
scientific view of the world. Perhaps a greater appreciation of art by the
scientific community could do this?
Katie Thomas
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Katie Thomas
Research Associate
The Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering
Department of Biochemical Engineering
University College London
Torrington Place
London, WC1E 7JE
UK
Tel: +44 171 504 2494; Fax: +44 171 383 2348
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