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Science deals with a unified universe governed
by laws universally applicable. Art deals with a multiple universe in which
no two apples or carburetors or love affairs are alike. Revealing the common
properties of apples and carburetors and love affairs is the business of
science. To individualize them is the province of
art. . . . Human nature . . . is
at its most interesting when least predictable. And art, poetry,
music are similarly most powerful when from work to work, school to school,
age to age, and decade to decade they show the widest imaginable diversity
from their own standard patterns of style, of subject matter, of communicative
effect.
Virgil Thomson
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