Science vs. Art

(countable) A particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability.

Example: ‘Of course in my opinion Social Studies is more of a science than an art.’;

Specifically the natural sciences.

Example: ‘My favorite subjects at school are science, mathematics, and history.’;

Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.

The fact of knowing something; knowledge or understanding of a truth.

(uncountable) The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.

(uncountable) Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.

(uncountable) The scientific community.

To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.

To use science to solve a problem.

Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.

Example: ‘If we conceive God's sight or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass.’; ‘Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy.’;

Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.

Example: ‘All this new science that men lere [teach].’; ‘Science is . . . a complement of cognitions, having, in point of form, the character of logical perfection, and in point of matter, the character of real truth.’;

Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; - called also natural science, and physical science.

Example: ‘Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in science, poetry, history, philosophy.’;

Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.

Example: ‘Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,And though no science, fairly worth the seven.’;

Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.

Example: ‘His science, coolness, and great strength.’;

To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.

a particular branch of scientific knowledge;

Example: ‘the science of genetics’;

ability to produce solutions in some problem domain;

Example: ‘the skill of a well-trained boxer’; ‘the sweet science of pugilism’;

Science (from Latin scientia 'knowledge') is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.The earliest roots of science can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age.

(uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.

Example: ‘There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.’;

(countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.

Example: ‘She's mastered the art of programming.’;

(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.

Example: ‘He's at university to study art.’;

(uncountable) Aesthetic value.

Example: ‘Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.’;

(uncountable) Artwork.

Example: ‘Sotherby's regularly auctions art for millions.’;

(countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.

Example: ‘I'm a great supporter of the arts.’;

(countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.

(countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.

The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.

The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.

Example: ‘Blest with each grace of nature and of art.’;

A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; - often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.

Example: ‘Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill.’;

The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill.

Example: ‘The fishermen can't employ their art with so much success in so troubled a sea.’;

The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.

Example: ‘In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts.’; ‘Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation.’;

Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.

Example: ‘So vast is art, so narrow human wit.’;

Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.

Skillful plan; device.

Example: ‘They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors.’;

Cunning; artifice; craft.

Example: ‘Madam, I swear I use no art at all.’; ‘Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength.’;

The black art; magic.

Example: ‘In America, literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity.’;

the products of human creativity; works of art collectively;

Example: ‘an art exhibition’; ‘a fine collection of art’;

the creation of beautiful or significant things;

Example: ‘art does not need to be innovative to be good’; ‘I was never any good at art’; ‘he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully’;

a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation;

Example: ‘the art of conversation’; ‘it's quite an art’;

photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication;

Example: ‘the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book’;

Art is a diverse range of (and products of) human activities involving creative imagination to express technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and ideas have changed over time. The three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture.