SIMILARITIES

Both aim to make sense of the world around us.

Science does this in a more factual way than art, however, they both aim to understand what is around us in their own way. Science is more focused on how things work and why they are how they are whereas Art aims to make sense of society or events in a more social context.

Both can create change in society.

Art and Science both address issues facing society, in the case of Science it is more often issues such as epidemics or illnesses or furthering innovation, but for Art, it is more often social issues such as political unrest. However, both Art and Science can cause or create a change in society by addressing these issues; when a cure for an illness is found or an epidemic reduces there is a change in society and when people become more aware or feel more connected to a social issue and in turn cause change.

DIFFERENCES

Art aims to express or evoke emotion whereas Science should be devoid of emotion.

Art aims to cause change or understanding through evoking emotion or empathy in its viewer whereas Science relies on plain facts to convince people of its value. If emotion was in the scientific method it would probably lose a lot of its value and reliability. This is not to say that Science currently is devoid of emotion but that in its purest form it should be as peoples egos and sense of not wanting to be embarrassed can slow down the process of discovery

Art does not have to be based on a theory or fact in the way Science does.

Art can be entirely based off of an emotion or an idea with no solid base or a provable cause, however, according to the scientific method, scientific experiments have to be based off first a well-founded theory than a hypothesis which is simply not the case with art pieces.