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Rudolf Arnheim
(15 Jul 1904 - 9 Jun 2007)
German-American psychologist and writer who studied art and visual perception, and the psychology of art.
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Science Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim (3 quotes)
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.
— Rudolf Arnheim
In Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order (1974), 21.
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.
— Rudolf Arnheim
In Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order (1974), 19.
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
