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		DeathArrow on April 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Roger Penrose – Is Mathematics Invented or Discove... While art is certainly very important, I believe it doesn't have the same impact upon our lives as math has. And if you believe art is about creativity, you can find beauty and art in in mathematics and other sciences. Many great mathematicians were also art lovers, they appreciated music, they appreciated paintings and other forms of art. I don't think there's a dichotomy between art and sciences.

inopinatus on April 17, 2020 [–]

I agree 100% with everything you say. However, I don’t believe that the “impact on lives” of scientific advances, whilst certainly being of tremendous interest and importance to the humans, carries into much universal significance.

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