Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
What is unique about humans is their individuality.
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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