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     With this week’s lecture being presented by Dr. Gimzewski, the separation between art and science became rather difficult to distinguish. At the beginning of this class, we saw that modern thinking imposed a clear separation between the arts and sciences. Creativity, imagination, and intellectual freedom governed the former, while rationality, rigor, and adherence to laws governed the latter (“Art for Science”). However, nanoscience challenges this rationale because the focus and scope of the field is ambiguous leading to an increase in creativity and productivity among scientists and artists alike (Spector 348). This ambiguity has also given rise to inflated perception of the potential of nanoscience allowing the imagination of researchers and science fiction writers to take over (Gimzewski and Vesna). Figure 1: A scale comparison of metric measurements including the nano (“The Scale of Things”).      In particular, the main issue with nanoscience is...