Science expanded the boundaries of the universe. The visible universe of today surpasses human imagination.

You can walk and you can run; yet you would die from exhaustion and heart failure, if you were forced to run beyond your capacity. Today you can travel on land at a hundred miles per hour, and it makes you feel only a little tired.

You couldn’t pull a loaded freight car even for a quarter of a mile, but an engine does it for you, carrying unimaginable loads at a super-speed.

While our ancestors had flown in their dreams, you and I can fly at four hundred miles per hour while awake, and see the curvature of this planet. If in the future we only triple this speed, we will be able to “stop the sun”. Our ancestors lived literally in the dark, while our artificial lights of today make color photography possible even at night.

Although man, in many respects, is physically less developed than the animals, his brain has led him to scientific discoveries which make him the ruler of this planet. It seems natural to believe that if science provides methods which make it possible to overcome our physical limitations, it may also equip us with superhuman capacities in some other fields of human experience. Then why not apply scientific method to the arts? Creative abilities are of no different origin than any other human abilities. They all come from the same source: the brain and the nervous system. It is about time to get off the uncontrollable magic flying carpet of strained imagination and take a rocket, which will bring the stars closer to us.

Joseph Schillinger