Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

God is Man's greatest invention

Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.