Written by: Arpan Acharya - 23010, Grade XII
Posted on: 17 November, 2022
“It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” - Steve Jobs
I’ve seen aspiring scientists getting motivated seeing a picture of Stephen Hawkings, a picture of Richard Feynman and so on; I’ve also seen artists getting inspired seeing a picture of Curt Cobain, Taylor Swift or an image of Aruna Lama. But personally, I have this feeling for this one picture where Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein stood together and it is as if they are radiating some positivity towards me. The following article is based on this feeling of positivity from the junction of sobriety of Science and the beautiful and fragile essence of arts:
Just like the way I believe that there should be completely scientific people and some other people completely affiliated with social sciences, I also believe that there should also be people with a blend of both of these subjects: My point is that such people should learn and develop the skills of understanding scenarios. To know where to speak on a factual basis, be it all in terms of pure logic or mathematics; theories and laws get priority, where paradoxes and conjectures also deserve some attention. Myths deserve the least of our concerns. Saying this, such people should also know where to wander and get lost in the realm of poetic and artistic avenues where for a certain time everything negates logic and defies the laws of physics.
Knowing the ‘gravity’ of gravity in different equations, knowing the gravity of words in poems, knowing the gravity of details in paintings and knowing the gravity of nuances in acting and many more, I can state that Gravity itself becomes a great deal in both science and liberal arts. I made the above statement improvising from the things that my physics teacher once said which I enthusiastically agree with: We have to understand the weightage of the very small trivial importance of subjects or we may say quanta elements that make up the field of artform or branch of sciences that we are working on.
Sometimes only algebra cannot really take us where we want to go, so we have to introduce calculus. I think there should be a switch of paradigms for a successful product. For an album to be made, I can't always pull off the whole album to be covered in one particular standard tuning: I could play it in so many different tunings!
To be where I want to be, I know myself that I need both algebra and calculus to solve my inner equation. In the journey, I might even find a different branch of mathematics compatible with Arpan’s life equation. Or also, I can say that I need to change various modes, scales , keys and chords in order to produce quality music to compose and give a proper conclusion to my life’s music album…
