Colorful Quotables on 

Art & Science. 

“B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.'
'Of course you do,' I said, 'everybody does once. But they get over it, thank God, like the measles and the chickenpox. Go home and go to bed and take some hot lemonade and put on three blankets and sweat it out.'
'But Mr J-Jimson, there must be artists.'
'Yes, and lunatics and lepers, but why go and live in an asylum before you're sent for? If you find life a bit dull at home,' I said, 'and want to amuse yourself, put a stick of dynamite in the kitchen fire, or shoot a policeman. You'd get twice the fun at about one-tenth of the risk.” 
― Joyce Cary , The Horse's Mouth

"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but thats not why we do it."

-- Richard Feynman

“If you want to really hurt your parents,and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” -- Kurt Vonnegut

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but rather "hmm, that's funny.... "Isaac Asimov



“I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.” ― Jarod Kintz






"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr


“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.” ― 
Groucho Marx

BTW:  I lost my bet-- see previous post.  Seems Google and other search engines have figured out how to thwart the shameless seekers of attention on the web.   The day's numbers did exceed any previous ones, but fell far short of goal I had foreseen.  The wager was for one weeks worth of snacks (max. 3 per day) from Company Kitchen vending machine so not a serious loss.