/sci/ - Science & Math

Today I walked across my campus and compared the old buildings of my university with the new ones. The old buildings are beautiful places with stucco, ornaments, statuary, polished stone and so on. The new building are just cubes made out of glass and beton without any decoration. Just behold the pic of our historical library and our current one. There were fucking marble discus-thrower in our old library. However it's not alone the buildings: Just compare old textbooks with new ones, or old scientific equipment with new one: Today it's just functional: no decoration, no ornaments, no beauty.

Such things made my really sad: I think that in former days, the scientists were really proud of their work: Science was an art and the university was literally a temple of knowledge. Today science is a business and the uni is a knowledge factory. I doubt that this is a good attitude.

What do you think about this development?