Comments on: Imagining the world http://eyegillian.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/imagining-the-world/ Wed, 13 May 2009 16:29:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Imagine « One Blue Sky http://eyegillian.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/imagining-the-world/#comment-278 Imagine « One Blue Sky Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:27:26 +0000 http://eyegillian.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-278 [...] more… [...] [...] more… [...]

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]]> By: Richard http://eyegillian.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/imagining-the-world/#comment-43 Richard Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:03:00 +0000 http://eyegillian.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-43 I play violin too! Though I prefer piano - it's one of my favorite ways to relax. I'd probably say Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is my favorite piece. Sorry, that was a bit off-topic! :) I play violin too! Though I prefer piano – it’s one of my favorite ways to relax. I’d probably say Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is my favorite piece.

Sorry, that was a bit off-topic! :)

]]> By: eyegillian http://eyegillian.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/imagining-the-world/#comment-41 eyegillian Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:18:02 +0000 http://eyegillian.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-41 Yes, Lavenderbay, I think all of these imaginative energies are aspects of art, and in that sense you could say that science, too, is art. But it's not just the human element I was celebrating here, because all of these areas -- from plodding scales to dry mathematical formulas -- are, after all, human pursuits. I'm celebrating the way our creative imaginations can help us leap across the unknown, because these leaps, these rare and precious eureka moments, are essential to all human fields of endeavour. Yes, Lavenderbay, I think all of these imaginative energies are aspects of art, and in that sense you could say that science, too, is art. But it’s not just the human element I was celebrating here, because all of these areas — from plodding scales to dry mathematical formulas — are, after all, human pursuits. I’m celebrating the way our creative imaginations can help us leap across the unknown, because these leaps, these rare and precious eureka moments, are essential to all human fields of endeavour.

]]> By: lavenderbay http://eyegillian.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/imagining-the-world/#comment-40 lavenderbay Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:16:59 +0000 http://eyegillian.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-40 Machine-made music, from player pianos to synthesizers, has never been able to replace the human touch. Creativity, discovery, imagination, intuition, and "happy accidents" -- you're saying, if I've got it right, that these are all aspects of any art, from watercolour painting to music to cooking to surgery to masonry to sailing to statesmanship to breeding puppies to exploring space to... Piano playing without the human element is just so many mathematical principles, while geometry with the human element is a thing of beauty (eg. the Book of Kells); is that it? Machine-made music, from player pianos to synthesizers, has never been able to replace the human touch. Creativity, discovery, imagination, intuition, and “happy accidents” — you’re saying, if I’ve got it right, that these are all aspects of any art, from watercolour painting to music to cooking to surgery to masonry to sailing to statesmanship to breeding puppies to exploring space to… Piano playing without the human element is just so many mathematical principles, while geometry with the human element is a thing of beauty (eg. the Book of Kells); is that it?

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