Parallelisms in Art and Science

Parallelisms in Art and Science
Most people consider art and science to be two totally opposite fields. The former relies on the subjective side of man whereas the other is concerned with objectivity. However, certain aspects are common to art and science. In ‘Interpretation in Science and Art’, Harold Osborne lays down the commonalities and differences between the two.
Osborne defines science as “[interpreting] the world by bringing order and regularity into the kaleidoscopic variety of experience, subduing its vagaries in the interest of understanding.” Furthermore, the basic principles and concepts in science are formulated not by deduction or logical reasoning but through intuition. Many, if not all of the great discoveries in science began as intuitive insights which were verified by observation later on. Examples would be Planck’s quantum hypothesis, Pauli’s exclusion principle, and Einstein’s attribution of deflection of light to the curvature of...