Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources taking the best from every study Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Science is simply common sense at its best that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics nor all logic but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night and feel them. But do I see less or more?
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.