Art Quote by Frank Oppenheimer

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

— Naomi Wolf

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

— Adam Frank

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

— Bill Bryson

It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making…

— Aubrey de Grey

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

— Ezra Pound

If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret…

— Catherine Yass

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others…

— Nathaniel Rich

People often think of artists and scientists as being diametrically opposed, but we both believe something is possible. We have a hypothesis and then…

— Mira Calix

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

— Albert Einstein

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it…

— Dave Barry

“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize…

— Edmund Blair Bolles