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That is beauty - that is the golden ratio ( fig 1). So what is beauty? First let me perhaps surprise you by stating that beauty can be defined numerically:- 1.6180339887. I would suggest that there is still a role for science and art in modern medicine and I wish to show that they should be interlinked in the training for and practice of medicine. Written in response to an argument that literature should and inevitably would be supplanted by science, he argued, “so long as human nature is what it is, culture would continue to provide mankind with its fulcrum of moral understanding”. But it is one of history's ironies that nearly eighty years earlier, Matthew Arnold in giving the same lecture had made the opposite point. He wrote of Snow's “complete ignorance of history, literature and the history of civilization… his incapacity as a novelist is … total… not only is he not a genius he is intellectually as undistinguished as it is possible to be.” For those of you who have come expecting a little gentle admonition, I am afraid you are going to be either relieved or disappointed as there is no way that I could match that. His theory was boosted when the critic FR Leavis published his attack on the Two Cultures. In education, when I was at school and to a large degree it remains, even today, there is a division as to whether one follows a scientific or an arts direction, to the detriment of the other. It was the late CP Snow, a true polymath, who gave the Rede lecture in 1959 and subsequently wrote a book, both under the title The Two Cultures, in which he bemoaned the split that had taken place between the scientists and the literary intellectuals. It is the qualities that give pleasure, meaning or satisfaction to the senses, but in this talk I wish to concentrate on the eye, the intellect and the moral sense. But before you go, let me draw your attention to a poem of Thomas Campion a Renaissance English poet, of whom it was said “he had the generous illusions of youth devoted to the studies of poetry, music, and medicine, clothed with that finer tact and sympathy which comes to a good physician”, surely still applicable to today's students, but in his poem he said:īut beauty is not just a visual experience it is a characteristic that provides a perceptual experience to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
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What do you want - an adorable pancreas?” And for those of you who believe in the new saying that beauty is in a jab and have come to hear about Botox, peels and fillers, they will not get a mention, so do leave now if you wish. The American writer Jean Kerr said “I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep.
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Beauty is… We all remember sayings such as beauty is skin deep, is only skin deep, is not only skin deep, is in the eye of the beholder, comes from within and so forth. Let me start with Confucius who said “everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it”.