Workshop: Paradox

"The Balance of Art and Science"

If you build the dream well, if you shape its foundation with intent, the cement of reality will come and fill in all the details.
That is why art is at least as important as science: the blueprint of human consciousness is first outlined by art.
It is art that teaches us what to love, what to aspire toward, what to call heroic.
Where else did we learn how to love, if not from poems, novels, and films?
Artists deal with what must be, the right reality, the dream reality, while scientists deal with what is.
Without art, science has no form, no blueprint, no heart.
For how could one aspire to be a scientist unless first inspired by the dream of making the world better?
Every act of discovery begins as a yearning, a poetic intuition dressed in logic.
Curiosity itself is a kind of fiction that believes it can become true.
Art and science are the two halves of one being, the twin wings of the butterfly of consciousness.
Their balance is beauty itself.
Beauty, in a dialectical sense, is relative; in a metaphysical sense, it is absolute.
Both are true, depending on which side of the moon one gazes from.
Like reason and intuition, like Newton and Einstein, like two- and three-dimensional geometry, they differ, yet both are complete within their own domain.
Equality, then, is not sameness but harmony, the urge toward perfection, the spirit of love, justice, truth, and beauty in an imperfect world.
From this tension, another butterfly is born: the balance between the ideal and the material, between dream and fact, art and science.
Humanity cannot live without this balance.
When the two realities clash, we suffer, but we also transform.
The cocoon must boil with its own heat before it breaks.
We hold to reality until it loses its merit on its own, until it, too, is ready to transform.
For everything without balance is simply in the process of becoming part of a greater one.