IELTS Essay: Scientists vs. Artists
A contribution from overseas
By Jeenn Lee Hsieh
For www.ieltschn.com
It is often said that great minds think alike, but scientists may differ from artists in the way they look at the world as it appears to them. In their searching for truth from time to time, both artists and scientists have made great contributions to the society in known history of mankind. While artists seem more inclined to interpret subjective truth spiritually, the main concern of most scientists seems to focus on objective truth materialistically.
Arts of various forms can present insights into the deepest corner of human hearts little known to science. It may be that great artists have made emotional sense of mankind by providing spiritual beauty in harmony with nature. Science, in comparison, has discovered in part the truth about nature, bringing about many inventions which have turned the world into a different one. Thanks to such great masters as Michael Angelo, Vicente Van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso, among many other maestros, many artists' contributions to society have been enriching people's spiritual life. Telling idealistic truth about nature and life, artists seem to be holding mirrors to human aspirations in such a way as different from scientists who choose to be objective and materialistic.
Scientists have found facts to explain life and nature and thereby reshape ideas. Examples are plenty-- discoveries such as the earth going around the sun by Galileo, the principles of gravity by Newton, the evolution of species by Darwin, to name only a few. As a result, society has witnessed remarkable changes in the material environment. All this can be seen: communications are faster, labor less strenuous, and life more enjoyable. Furthermore, the modern kid of civilization--the computer and along with it the Internet--is an invention that is changing the way people work and the way they live, although not necessarily the way they think.
It is beyond doubt how much the society has gained from the contributions of both scientists and artists, no matter materialistically or spiritually, as if two worlds apart. The world as seen by Albert Einstein is one in which "all great scientists are always artists," referring perhaps to great minds like Leonardo da Vinci as artist and scientist at once. To illustrate how sometimes great minds could think differently, it must be remembered also the idealistic world of Picasso, with this quote: "computers are useless because they can give only answers."
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