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Artists on science: scientists on art

Nature 434, 299-300 (17 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434299a; Published online 16 March 2005

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The arts and sciences provide complementary ways of looking at the world, argues Alan Lightman.

In childhood, I wrote dozens of poems. I expressed in verse my questions about death, my loneliness, my admiration for a plum-coloured sky and my unrequited love for 14-year-old girls.