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Philosophy and Poetry

COLONNA François (Polytechnic School) :
“The synthesis of images is one of the means of reconciling (or better of reconciling) today art and science.”

MANDELBROT (IBM):
“…, there are not only the mathematicians to find that the fractales are often very beautiful, and their beauty finds being has my opinion of a very new kind. … In my work, the scientific theory and mathematics are to have a powerful graphic aspect, and it is the aspect which is very largely percu as being plastically beautiful.”

ARISTOTE (erudite and philosopher) :
“Mathematical sciences particularly present the order, symmetry and the limitation; and they are the greatest forces of the beauty.”

CONNES Alain (mathematician, Medail Fields) :
“I think that the creative act, in mathematics, is carried out by the language, during the conceptual mathematical reality division.”

GENNES Pierre-Gilles (Nobel Prize of Physics) :
“A first thing that I appreciate in the drawing, it is its capacity for communication, larger than that of the words. … I see another field, more subtle, or art and science meet.”



PECKER Daniel (mathematician) :
“Is the geometry starts with the imagination of the forms, a visual art ?
However, after the first outlined, it becomes melody of the form, which one plays and which one transforms inlassablement… Parfois, a surprise appears, if beautiful that one cannot keep it for oneself. “



LEPRINCE-RINGUET Louis (physicist):
“There is no scientific activity without a creative spirit. One knows that the scientific method is rational, exgigeante, universal, that it asks for in particular the attention the signs and the spirit of handing-over in question. The man of science creates new apparatuses, imagines theories to explain or envisage the discoveries. He is basically a creator. He is very often an artist, practising to him same painting, music or other arts. The examples of Bhabha, Pasteur, Einstein are eloquent.”



PECKER Jean-Claude (astronomer):
“The table corresponds has an intuition which does not need to be confronts has anything”



LUMINET Jean-Pierre (astrophysicist) :
“How to create? Never not to separate to know and emotion! Amazement in front of the world of it is the common root, and the surprise the sap. Who east did not jammais surprised and atrophies. Any creation, scientist or artistic, nait of a conjunction of surprise, chance and intuition, followed by a lucid and difficult work of “setting in stucture”.”



PASTEUR Louis (biologist, discoverer of the microbes, inventor of vaccination;
in 1865, its raised school of the Art schools or he was a professor):
“There are circumstances or I clearly see the possible and desirable alliance of science and art, or the chemist and the physicist can take seat near you and to light you.”

HUGO Victor (writer, philosophizes):
“Science makes discoveries, the made art of works.”

JACOB François (Nobel Prize of Medicine):
“Science is, with art, one of the great adventures of humanity.”

BAUDELAIRE estimated that the best criticism of a table was a poem: it wanted that a work of art answers another work of art has, able to make resound in another form, in another frequency, the vibrations of creative imagination.

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REISS Stephanie (Associations Medecis Art-Science) et MARECHAL Ilke Angela (Espace europeen C.I.C.) :
"Entre Art et Science, la Creation."

( Exposition d'oeuvres d'art des scientifiques et des artistes. Conference, debats, tables rondes.
Cycle de conferences au Palais de la decouverte, du 21 mai au 12 octobre 1997 ).

Medecis Art-Science; 96, rue des Moines, 75017 Paris.
Espace europeen C.I.C. 54, rue Louis Blanc, 75010 Paris.

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BREAK Michel (astrophysicist):
“One cannot declare with impunity
That the energy of the vacuum
Is permanently
Absolutely null
Without carrying reached
With the fundamental principle
Quantum physics.
The absence itself
Is fluctuating
The interior man
Is outside
To be in the vacuum
It is to be at home "

DUBUSSY Claude (musician):
“It is necessary to seek the discipline in freedom
To listen to the councils of nobody if not the wind
Who passes and the history of the world tells us "

RABELAIS François (writer):
“Science without conscience is only ruin of the heart.”

RACINE Jean (dramatic poet):
“The perfect reason flees any end,
And wants that one is wise with sobriety. “

DESCARTES (philosopher):
“I think, therefore I am.”

SOCRATE (philosopher):
“Know same.”

SHAKESPEARE (writer):
“To Be gold not to Be, that is the question.”

SOCRATE (philosopher):
“What I know, it is that I do not know anything”

Leonard OF VINCI (painter, engineer) presents itself as follows:
“Uomo senza letter.
(A man of few knowing). “

SHAKESPEARE (writer):
“I am tall because I am small”

EINSTEIN Albert (physicist):
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

OF VINCI Leonard (painter engineer):
“All our knowledge rises from what we feel.”

MALRAUX Andre (writer, former minister for the Culture):
“Civilization is not social, but psychological thing; and it is only one which is true: that of the feelings”.

HULIN Michel (professor of philosophy has the University):
“In a certain manner, Buddhism makes it possible to give the philosophical interrogation in contact with the questions of the direction of the life and the hello, crucial questions among Greeks, but delaissees by the contemporary Western thought”

MONET (prosecutor):
“The worst of the things, it is not to lose the life, but to lose the reason of living, i.e. the honor.”

QUEENS Frederick (Nobel Prize of Physics):
“Science is an attempt for better including/understanding nature, in a way coherent, logical, concise and beautiful. It is necessary to be ready A all to try, has all to lose to arrive there”

JOSTEIN GAARDER (philosopher):
“Philosophy is anything else only one attempt for better including/understanding the world. …
A philosopher: somebody who can put questions "

DALAI-LAMA (spiritual leader of Bouthisme Tibetan):
“The joy is a capacity, cultivate it.”

“To like others does not mean that we must forget ourselves.”

SONGAI (monk ZEN):
“The law of the law is without law.”

OF VINCI Leonard (painter engineer):
“… my concern now is to find cases and inventions, while collecting them as they come me also has the spirit… does not astonish you nor do not laugh at me, Lecteur, if I make here so great jumps of a subject has the other.”