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Title: Neither Art nor Science
Review: It's a truly wonderful concept: How do the Arts and the Sciences relate? Unfortunately, Shlain gets it wrong. His Physics is so often incorrect, especially concerning Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, that his entire line of reasoning falls apart. And as for his claim that artists lead the vision of discovery (for example, it was artists who envisioned the concepts of Relativity such as in "Nude Descending a Staircase"), he neglects the fact that Science is more methodical than Art. While a new style of painting is created and justified the first time an artist makes a piece, a new theory of physics is developed over a lifetime and must be rigorously justified. The questions and thoughts that gave rise to Relativity were created long before (it goes back to Galileo) the Cubist style of painting was invented.
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