The Importance of the Arts

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…in alternative ways, to hold different assumptions and to entertain different and often more instructive ways of making connections and ways of looking at things. Being able to think in different ways and to sense the possibilities may inspire the economist, physicist, and political scientist to see interconnections and hypothesize about variables in ways they may not have considered. The arts can free us to think and dream and sense, and this often proves invaluable.