On my long drive home, I was listening to National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation 1 and heard discussion on the difference between the reductionist and holistic approaches to the sciences. Each ren...On my long drive home, I was listening to National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation 1 and heard discussion on the difference between the reductionist and holistic approaches to the sciences. Each rendering teaches something important about the fish: the reductionist drawing of the fish anatomy helps explain how a fish is built and the holistic watercolor helps explain how a fish relates to its environment.
