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What can I say really about the whole issue? I've always thought the sciences is an interesting field of study, however, my love was in the arts. That's it. I can offer no explanation nor a solution in the whole "no one like sciences" debacle. It is not my area of expertise and talking about it would seem like "macam si pandai suka membual".
However, since, after all, "kantut tikus" (hehe, cali) would suffice, then why not hey? Truthfully, I knew that the sciences was supposedly more "in demand" or "more prestigious" rather than the arts/humanities. In fact (not blowing my own horn), I was actually pretty darn good at it. It was all, truthfully, very easy.
Observe the 3 steps of learning in the sciences:
- Teacher give fact.
- Understand that the fact cannot be changed and will always be explained in such rigid way.
- Make sure you do not forget.
Yet, I felt, the sciences, lacked what the arts provided: exploring the depth underneath the superficiality. The sciences was always so structured, so set, so emotionless. There's no more changing, like it does not allow for my creative and rebellious streak. I thought in my little 15 year old head, hell, I don't want to be stuck in a life where I can't change anything!
The arts, or the humanities as they say it nowadays, was so flexible. There was no right or wrong answer to anything. You say what you want, you do what you want, you create your own world, or so it seems to me. It's a world which is always changing, but whether you want to accept that change it is up to you. You need to think critically and observe whether you do want to accept that change, and you become sharper and more aware because of that. Everything is meaningful if you want it to be.
Well, how can the sciences beat that? Ish.
iammaurina 
If I’m to choose a side in this science-art debate, I’d say “why not both?”. Because in my opinion, they complemet each other. One nurtures discipline and the other nurtures creativity and the abstract. Science is for the right hemisphere of the brain and art is for the left. They’re two sides of a coin.
In my opinion lah. =)
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Yatah the system doesn’t see it that way kannn (malar jua blaming the system ani eh). Macam the two atu kana buat as if they are separate berabis bah, at least thats what I thought when I was studying maseh. Yatah kali banyak orang ijap. Plus, macam, everyone knows the sciences is for the pandai… Hehe. Although I don’t neccesarily agree. I’d prefer the term, sciences is not for the simple. Then again, arts ya jua. I guess, to each his own lah.
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Mmm.. I think there’s a right and wrong ans to “anything” in art. Both science and art depend on logic fact, by common sense. I think science and art are the subclass of mathematics.
I know there’s no such thing as “100%” in art (unlike in sciece or mathematics that we have been told always) but actually there’s no 100% in science as well. If art is flexible, science too. Some old theories were proved to be wrong since they found a new ans.. it keeps changing from time to time.
Hehe.. do u think grammar (of language) is art?
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Duol ulu, yes I agree with your views in fact. If science is not flexible, we’d still think the earth is flat.
However, when I was young and ngok, I thought the arts offered me this flexibility and the sciences didnt. I’m not really sure why though.
🙂 Oh well. Science is an art. And Art is a science.
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Hehe.. don’t say ure “ngok”.. :D.
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