Thursday, September 25, 2008

Pithy

"Art is I; science is we"

-- Claude Bernard

(quoted in W.H.Auden, "A Certain World: A Commonplace Book")

5 Comments:

Blogger The Black Mamba said...

And,

Engineering is ... ?

(someone had to ask, yes?)

10:45 AM  
Blogger Space Bar said...

what would that make damien hirst?

7:45 AM  
Blogger Cheshire Cat said...

BM: ... They. Naturally. And I am glad of it.

Space: Confused? Schizophrenic? Royalty?

11:34 AM  
Blogger Alok said...

lol. and what about mathematicians?

they are beyond the "subject" itself (singular, plural whatever)?

11:44 AM  
Blogger Cheshire Cat said...

Oh, mathematicians are nobodies. That's why they invented the concept of zero - pure self-referentiality.

1:17 PM  

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