Comic #6631: the-beauty-of-science

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Panel 1: Person 1: "DO YOU THINK SCIENTISTS APPRECIATE BEAUTY MORE THAN ARTISTS?"
Person 2: "HUH?"
Sign: "BIOLOGY DEPT."

Panel 2: Person 1: "I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say 'look how beautiful it is,' and I’ll agree. Then he says 'As an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,' and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is, I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty."

Panel 3: Person 3: "THAT’S THE DUMBEST SHIT I EVER HEARD."

Panel 4: Person 4: "LOOK, THAT KIND OF THING MIGHT FLY IN A PHYSICS CLASSROOM, MAYBE EVEN WITH SOME ARTISTS, BUT TRY IT AT MY DISSECTION TABLE."

Panel 5: Person 5: "YOU THINK ZOOLOGISTS SEE EXTRA BEAUTY BECAUSE THEY ALSO KNOW ABOUT THE WORMS LIVING IN A DEAD POSSUM’S BUTT? HOW ABOUT THE UBIQUITY OF STDS IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM?"

Panel 6: Person 6: "YOU THE ARTIST SEE ONLY THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURE, BUT I THE SCIENTIST ALSO KNOW ABOUT THE DISCHARGES PRODUCED BY ITS UNTREATED CHLAMYDIA!"

Panel 7: Person 1: "PLEASE STOP SCREAMING."

Panel 8: Person 7: "BEAUTY AND TRUTH ARE CUMULATIVE IN MATH, PHYSICS, ART, AND LITERALLY NOWHERE ELSE!"

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