Our picture of the universe has changed more in the last hundred years than it has in all of human history. We live in this time where it's hard to imagine how much our picture of the universe has changed. But no matter how much our picture of the universe has changed, it's so almost incomprehensibly different than the universe that the ancients who built this amphitheater were thinking about.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. The hypothesis is the seed of science; the achievement is its flower.
Will Durant — The Story of Philosophy
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. But how are we to serve? By art and by science. We once knew that art and science both have as their basis the same aspiration — the aspiration toward truth.
Leo Tolstoy — What Is Art?
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps; the goal of nature is to build better mice. What we call progress is really only the rearrangement of obstacles.
Karl Popper — The Open Society and Its Enemies