If you could live with one or the other, which would you choose? Science or art?

Art…the expression of life would be my choice to keep.

Most of the great artists of the past were also the great scientists. I don’t think you can seperate one from the other. Best example is Leonardo da Vinci.

Art. I couldn’t live without music. I’ve never gone a day without listening to it, or reading a book. I can deal without learning about biology, or horticulture, but I love art. Nature will always do it’s own thing, but art is all our own. But of course you can find art in nature too. See! art is everywhere, and it’s inescapable.
@WestRiverrat has a point too.

Science can be art too though. Here is the ovary of a deep sea angler

Art does not exclude science. But, science can exclude art.

Art, although science can sometimes be beautiful too.

@marinelife…my point, in part.

art… care about it more, it’s more “my thing” but we need medicine!

An existence lacking in either would be no comfortable life.

Without science, we couldn’t see the stars.
Without art, we’d have no expression.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard is right. It wouldn’t be comfortable at all.

I would agree that life wouldn’t be comfortable without either. But, the question was to pick one! C’mon @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard…what would it be.

It would truly suck to give up art, but science is more important to humanity IMO. But the two aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.

Science. The deeper we delve into it, the more art it produices.
http://www.princeton.edu/~artofsci/gallery2010/
http://www.litandart.com/2008/01/30/the-art-science-phenomenon/
http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2010/04/09/immune-evasion-versus-superinfection/
http://www.fractalism.com/fractal-art.htm

The question is flawed, all art is math.

@MissA, okay then, if I had to give up one, I’d give up art. very, very reluctantly

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard GA, because if you know science, you can always reinvent art. Stained glass is just science turned into art.

@WestRiverrat, well put.

Hey @WestRiverrat…you forgot, so I gave @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard the lurve. Actually, I did so before reading that you did!

If I ever had to choose, I would choose science. Counter-intuitive, since I love photography, drawing, writing… but you can’t solve environmental or medical problems without science, and those are the issues we really need to tackle.

I will take art:)