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“The scientist describes what is,” wrote Theodore von Kármán. “The engineer creates what never was.” Aristotle believed there were seven liberal arts: subjects that are suitable for the development of intellectual and moral excellence, as distinguished from those that are merely useful or practical. I believe that the invention of new technology is its own art—the eighth liberal art.
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Babitsky, V. (2019). The Eighth Liberal Art. In: On the Waves of a Pulsating World . Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30849-0_13
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