Two tribes? Science and art are more like than unalike

This guy works in "the humanities"? Please note how he is totally unable to reference anything from any of the humanities: no line from any poem, no character from any novel, no plot from any film. Instead we get wonk-talk: "cumulative," "congruence," "synthesis." Yes, "the humanities" and the sciences do resemble, copy each other. All divvy up into departments where, for careerism, all honor the taboo against seeing or referencing anything in anyone else's department. All want a literacy stripped of humane references. Goodbye outside perspectives. Hello claustrophobia of dehumanized wonk-speak.

Aristotle first divided the arts from the sciences and, on balance, I think he got it right. Works of art are unique and stand forever. However, scientific discoveries are always in danger of becoming obsolete - for example, Newton's laws of motion were blown out of the water by general relativity and quantum field theory. History, however, is an interesting case - it is clearly part of the arts and humanities but historical theories can (and are) often rendered obsolete with further research.