Aphoristicism is a symptom of arteriosclerosis

From Nabokov's interview by Alfred Appel, Jr.

Vladimir Nabokov:

There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.

That is usually what is quoted but there is an adjunct, always omitted, worth considering.

There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts. Aphoristicism is a symptom of arteriosclerosis.

By which I take Nabokov to mean that a fixation solely on fine distinctions and an overdependence on clean, abstract ideas is a consequence of too narrow and occluded a vision. Art and science are dependent on one another in ways that practitioners of either are often reluctant to acknowledge. Back to C.P. Snow's discourse on the two cultures.