I hope that professional scientists, who often can spare little time for historical and philosophical literature, will find in Insights the kind of foundational analysis that gives new awareness into philosophical underpinnings of their work. Having based the material in Chapter 10 on firm historical and artistic investigations grounded in the results of previous chapters, I believe that my analyses of aesthetic ideas and the differences and similarities between art and science will interest artists and art historians. In this arena barriers between disciplines dissolve. While the laws of science per se make no statements on ethics, morals, or religion, its practitioners sometimes do. By and large, scientists have been in the vanguard of the fight to defend purely speculative thought against accusations of religious or political sedition.
Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night.
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