SpiralTruth

TED just posted a fascinating clip from 2002 where Mae Jemison talks about the relationship between the arts and sciences. As someone who is at heart an artist, but who chose to study science in university, I’ve always been painfully aware of the communication barriers between the two worlds. To the artist, science is often too cold and calculating to be any fun. To the scientist, art can be subjective to the point of being irrelevant. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance made a case for seeing art and science as complimentary ways of approaching life over thirty years ago, but I think Jemison states their relationship even more eloquently in this video, saying: “Science provides an understanding of a universal experience and art provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.” Now the only problem is convincing universities and high schools to teach this way…