Points for/against without science, the beauty and wonder of nature would not be fully appreciated.
• Scientific explanations of the formation of living organisms reveal their intricacy and beauty
• Technology can reveal through exploration much that was hitherto hidden
• Scientific research of plants and insects, for example, can reveal the inter-dependence of life in our world
• Science is an integral part of nature and its various disciplines continue to provide insight
• The beauty and wonder of nature, the harmony, the patterns that science can reveal, are mirrored in art and music
• At the same time creative artistry and ordinary observation can open our minds and hearts to the beauty of nature
• Patterns revealed by physics across space and time
• Opportunities for artists to respond to the patterns that science reveals e.g. the zigzag pattern of all the elements making up our solar system
• The phenomenon of resonance when form echoes an idea
• The world’s relatively unknown wonders are explored by scientists e.g. Christmas Island – few areas can match its concentrated endemic life forms – other isolated worlds would be relevant
• Physics and music – the “music of the spheres”
• In medieval universities music was one of the core disciplines along with astronomy, geometry, and arithmetic – musical phrasing is mathematical in nature – balance, energy, equation.
