0910AW Issue176 WDI小组追星剑特训第一期 By Lucarl

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关键字：科学，验证；艺术，颠覆；价值
核心：
科学的建立：假设+求证。但是新建立的科学可能对前面的achievement有颠覆作用。
艺术的常态：颠覆前人。但是也有经久不衰的艺术品被不断reassure，证明其价值。
提纲：
1、
定义科学的建立。定义艺术的常态。
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镜头拉远，从时间线上考虑。新科学的建立能够颠覆已经建立的科学成果（地心-日心说，经典物理和量子物理）。曾经被颠覆的艺术品，重新被发觉，并经久不衰，成为神迹。（梵高）
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结论。两者的价值。很难说科学就是验证，艺术就要颠覆，但是两者共同的价值，就是让整个人类进步，让所有人意识到什么是先进全面的科学，什么是优秀的艺术。从而，人类从物质和精神上都更加丰收，更加有底蕴，更加有明天。

TOPIC: ISSUE176 - "The function of science is to reassure; the purpose of art is to upset. Therein lies the value of each."
WORDS: 464
TIME: 00:41:33
DATE: 2009-6-30 3:15:40

In order to inspect the value of science and art, we should know first what the definitions of science and art are, and how they develop. It is helpful if we understand the way they thrive and decline during the river of history.

In research, a scientist first gives out his assumption to his or her theory or rule, according to the existing theory and laws in science. After that, with great carefulness and highly overall consideration from different angle, he or she try to reassure his assumption. If committed, a new theory or rule is expected to be claimed. In contrast, for artists, they would like to upset the mainstream and put the personality into public. In other words, an artist is always wanting to be different from others, and wanting his work to be unique. Therefore, artists are often more
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But that's the case for a relatively short period of time. If we take the camera along the river of human history, we are likely to find that science is not always reassuring rules and laws made by former scientists, and that art is not always upsetting, which is trying to be different from previous works of former artists. Instead, some once significant achievements accessed by our forebears are totally overturned by scientists who vote the same president with us, and some once criticized art works are advocated by fans who suddenly realize that there's more inside matters in those master pieces.

As an illustration, the earth-centered system acclaimed by Aristotle finally was replaced by solar-system by several genius enormously significant works. That is an example of wrong theory replaced. However, not all overturns in science destroy the previous achievements completely. A perfect example is the relative theory built by Albert Einstein, which proved that Newton's classic physics is a particular case for relative theory. Meanwhile, it's still working unless we are talking about physics in which light involves.
As for art, some master pieces, which value millions of dollars today, hardly deserve affection from Mr. nobody. Many works were deliberately collected long after the artist who made them passed away. It is possible that people lived simultaneously with the artist had difficulty in understand such upsetting masterpieces. In other words, the ideas the artist tried to spread were too radical. Painters are certainly the majority of these artists. Many works of Vaughan, for instance, are still abstract for ordinary people who didn't take any art-related curriculum.

The development, both of science and art, is too complex to say that it is to reassure or to upset. But the value of each lies in that they, both and more often corporately, speed the development up. While providing the deep history of achievements, science and art together bring human a brighter future.