Guest Post: Gary Clark - Catching up with Goethe: Some Thoughts on Art and Science

Gary Clark Night’s reign is timeless and spaceless.
Novalis, Hyms to Night.

For the last five years or so I have been a Visiting Research Fellow with the Adelaide University School of Medicine researching ancient human fossil anatomy and brain evolution - which sounds all very impressive. When I joined the faculty, however, I had rarely felt myself to be such an interloper, like I didn’t belong and was kind of, well let’s be honest, a bit of a fraud. I felt I was there under false pretences. Wi...