Today I decided that all writing must be art, whatever the purpose. Amusingly, this implies that all scientists, including my brothers, are artists. They write for a purpose: to get information across in the most direct, least ambiguous manner. This is nevertheless an aesthetic, and thus scientists make aesthetic choices. Trying to minimise style is still stylistic.

I’ve been pondering this a lot recently. What, exactly is the relationship between art and science? They seem to be the two poles of academia (the study of sport being pointless to me). How can these poles be reconciled? Do they have any commonalities? If not, why should one be privileged over the other? They sometimes seem totally different disciplines, yet without science there would be no art, and without the art form of writing, science would be unable to communicate itself.