When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety.
BronowskiTags: science art philosophy thought balance unity variety golden-mean
All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.
Virginia WoolfTags: golden-mean
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