Art or science?

[Redingold]

Gee, that's hard. Decay or... Decay?

Both are just politically incorrect to me.

What on earth do you mean by that? How in the hell is science "politically incorrect"? In what way is it a decay?

 

[TheMetalGuy]

Music is an artform, and since i want to go pro.
I choose art as personal goal. (I play the bass if you might ask)

 

[Xsistence13]

Science is art and art is science, but I will say be are equally important. Science keeps us alive while art gives us a reason to stay alive. Also, science teaches us the world around us, but art teaches us the culture around as and the culture of eras before.

 

[PAGEToap44]

Mythbusters has shown just how beautiful science can be, and art rarely has explosions.

So... you've never seen a film? Art has many forms and need not be restricted. Besides science is just boring next to art. (My personal opinion btw, no offense meant to science followers.) And let us not forget when the two coincide. Art + science = video games. That's kinda why we're all on this website.

 

[Paksenarrion]

You can't have one without the other. Prove me wrong.

 

[Gigano]

I'd prioritize the thing that grants me the opportunity for shelter, preserving food, medical treatment and overall eases my life considerably.

Not that said life wouldn't be empty without art/entertainment. But first things first, scientific advancement is what I owe that my basic needs are met.

 

[theonlyblaze2]

What does that make religions?

Oh, it makes them hamsters.

 

[Purplecoyote]

I'm an art student who loves science, so there.

 

[Fiend13]

Typical american approach:
There shall only be light and darkness, good and evil, black and white....
As stated many times above me neither can you separate the two nor is there are reason to do so.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Science for sure, I've never seen the point of "Art."

 

[Peter Manning]

While I plan to pursue a career in art, I respect and admire science. And besides, when was the last time you saw a dude in lab coat and goggles screaming "AAAAART!!!!!" I mean, outside Boston.

 

[Nova Helix]

Art looks pretty and is an expression of the culture it is from.

Science allows a person to stick their hand into another persons chest cavity, cut out their heart, put in a new heart, and save a life.

Science wins QED

 

[Fiend13]

Science for sure, I've never seen the point of "Art."

Ever played a game, read a book/comic or watched a movie/series?

1. That's art.
2. One "point" of it is entertainment.

 

[Aur0ra145]

Art never created an airplane.

 

[tigermilk]

In terms of my everyday life (like most peoples I would assume) science plays a larger role and is more important, I do think though on some level it is invisible. What I mean is we take science for granted and aren't fully concious of it (we are aware running water/electricity etc are based in science but aren't constantly dwelling upon it).

Complicit in the consumption of art (largely) is the conciousness of art as art. When we listen to music, watch a film, look at a painting, read literature etc the artisitic nature of the work is not a means to an end. Art is used as art not as a means to an end. To elaborate further electricity turns on the TV to receive the signal to broadcast the show and speaking personally I am aware of the programme and art over technology and science.

I voted for art even though on some level it feels irrational to do so knowing the importance of science in my life.

 

[SuccessAndBiscuts]

I didn't vote as it's an unfair comparison. They are completely unrelated.

Actually in a lot of ways they are closely related. Just ask Leonardo da Vinci.

Yea, I'm not going to vote either. In my opinion although they serve different purposes on the surface they are mutually dependant. I'm at uni doing computer science and one of the books we need to read is Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Bach's music, Escher's images, and Godel's maths all mirror each other in really unusual and interesting ways. Also that book is MELTING MY BRAIN.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I don't think they're mutually exclusive.

 

[Blue_vision]

Well, I know you said that scientists should stop working.
But think if a upper class Englishman in the 1900's had said that and look at all the wonders that game.
What is left for the general public? Better houses,faster trasnportation,bio-mechanics (prostetics),cybernetics,saving the third world,global warming and lastly but not least!
Better condoms.

But how much does that make people happier? In that sense, Science gives us stuff, art gives us art. It's been proven that more stuff doesn't make us happier. Yeah bio mechanics is cool, as is cybernetics. But it's not as much a necessity as art is. And houses and transportation don't need any improvements at all.
And note that half the reason we have global warming is because of science, from the industrial revolution and such, and science will do little, if not nothing, to save the third world. Social solutions would do far better work than science in both instances.

 

[PurplePlatypus]

Or?
But neither would be as they are without the other and they both have their places and importance.

 

[tigermilk]

Are those to really so different as to warrant a choice between them?

Your avatar perfectly fits your comment. It makes me want to set up a second accout purely for posting questions on threads.