At 1959, a British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow had introduced the idea of "Two Cultures", which was the intellectual life of the society was separated into two cultures - sciences and the literary humanities. I am a MIMG (Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecule Genetics) major, and I am influenced mostly by sciences, such as math, physics, chemistry, and biology. However, as an general requirement, I also took linguistic class and history class, and these classes were more like literary humanities. Therefore, I am influenced by the two culture and I found there were large different between these two culture. Also at UCLA, there are an obvious division between these two cultures. UCLA campus is divided into south campus and north campus - south campus includes most of the science major (sciences) and north campus included most of the art and humanities majors (literary humanities).
The picture shows the Molecular Science building, which is a typical south campus building
Before this week, my own opinion was that these two cultures were completely separated and isolated. Because when I learned math, physics, biology and chemistry classes, I do not feel that I was also exposed into literary humanities. Also, when I learned history and linguistic classes, I feel like there is nothing related in science. However, as Victora Vesna point out that a new "Third culture" would emerge and it would close the gap between sciences and literary humanities. The border of the science and literary humanities is actually not distinct. In fact, many art products also use sciences to complement, such as math. The famous painting "Mana Lisa by Da Vinci used the golden ratio in the painting so that it had a good visualize and people peel comfortable with it.
Although there is a gap between science and literary humanities, the gap is getting more and more vague. Science and literary humanities are complement to each other. As Jenny Wu said "Scientific progress cannot happen without a little daydreaming". Through eliminating the concept of the two cultures "sciences" and "humanities", and just treat them entirely, we can find that science and humanities are related to each other. As Jennifer LeClaire's equation "Science + Art = A Winning Combination".
In the future, we should use a new perspective to explore the world, and become more innovation inspired by science and art.
Sources
Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge UP, 1959. Print.
Vesna, Victoria. "Toward a Third Culture: Being In Between." Leonardo. 34 (2001): Print.
Microsoft, Jennifer LeClaire from. "Science + Art = A Winning Combination." Science + Art = A Winning Combination. N.p., 05 Sept. 2013. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.
Wu, Jenny. "The Art and Science Of..." Yale Scientific Magazine. Yale Scientific Magazine - Http://www.yalescientific.org, 14 Feb. 2013. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.
"Golden Ratio The Golden Bridge Between Logic and Creativity." Royalens. N.p., 10 Feb. 2017. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.
In the future, we should use a new perspective to explore the world, and become more innovation inspired by science and art. 
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