Robert M. PirsigWe have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
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The quote says that artists and scientists have no spiritual sense of gravity. They do not feel the gravity of the universe, which they are a part of. So, they do not think about how their actions may affect the universe in a negative way.
Source: Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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