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When Robert Pirsig suggested that science was traditionally concerned with truth, while art was traditionally concerned with beauty, he was both right, and wrong. Science and art appear to be very separate studies, but they also rely heavily on each other. The Greek word for art is techne, which the words technique and technology are both surprisingly derived. Both of these words are widely used and applied in both scientific and artistic practices. Artists and scientists alike study people, materials, culture, history, and religion, and transform the information they research into something else. Both science and art involve investigation, ideas, and testing, whether in