Better health through prevention and treatment of disease, better diets, and vastly improved lifestyles result in large measure from scientific effort and exploration. Many superstitions, which darkened the landscape of human life, have been eliminated. Transportation and communication have taken quantum leaps, as has food production and sanitation. Experiments have opened great vistas of knowledge and much of the mystery of biological life has been explicated. Sciences have pierced both outer space and inner space.
Scientific research remains an appropriate, creative human endeavor.
Nevertheless, science, like theology, may attempt to claim absolute truth for fixed findings and definitions. A third component of human activity is the arts. Here imagination and intuition push back the frontier of human consciousness. This is true of graphic, literary, and performing arts alike. Graphic art seeks not to capture but to reflect that which defies definition.