A Common Impulse in Art and Science

Meanings, processes and values associated with art and science are explored with the intention of finding the similarities and differences in the origins and intellectual products of these areas of human endeavor. The authors argue that the most important reason for the present separation of these areas has been a cultural and philosophical failure to recognize the common human origins and goals of each. They hypothesize that art and science both contribute new “words” to our cultural lexicon and thus conclude that these areas are the same in a formal lexical sense.