Ernst
Gombrich
19 Briardale Gardens, London NW3 7PN, United
Kingdom.
"Art is long and life is short." That famous
saying was coined more than 2,000 years ago by Hippocrates, the founder
of Greek medicine, and subsequent developments have proved him right.
For the "art" to which he refers is the art of healing that has indeed
been long in growing and developing and, in the process, incidentally,
made life gradually a little less short. In his period and long after,
the notion of art denoted any skill based on knowledge; in other words,
both what we now call "science," and what we call "art."
It may
not be inappropriate to recall these origins in a journal that has set
itself the aim of bridging the rift
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