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Art and Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

The thesis which I wish to recommend to you is that science is a form of art though not of fine art: that like art, it is a human invention, not less real for that, and having value, or being valuable, partly if not mainly because of that. I mean to indicate by this statement that for me at least a better insight can be got into the nature of science by considering it as a form of art, and asking how it differs from and how it resembles fine art.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1926

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References

page 5 Note 1 Read before the Bedford College Philosophical Society on November 25, 1925.

page 10 Note 1 Cf. Browning’s “With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.” Once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he.

page 11 Note 1 Art. Clive Bell (new edition) London, 1924. If only for lack of space I am unable to discuss this phrase, or in general the question of what a work of art contains, its contents.

page 11 Note 2 George Frederick Watts. By Watts, M. S.. Vol. iii. p. 12, London, 1912.Google Scholar

page 13 Note 1 Cf. in Wordsworth’s poem on the poet: In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart.

page 13 Note 2 Art and the Material. Manchester University Press. 1925.

page 16 Note 1 Hence, I may observe, the room left for individual (almost artistic) style in scientific exposition.

page 18 Note 1 A.B.C. of Relativity. London, 1925.