"What does it mean, in the end, to describe a leaf when it may fork into many others? Instead, we describe ferns by the generations of their branching." —Wei Tchou for Virginia Quarterly Review
This interview with biologist Adam Rutherford includes some excellent examples of why liberal arts disciplines are essential to science. They are the tools by which we define what science is in the first place, and decide what questions are useful to explore in scientific practice.