Consilience

Analysis breaks down natural phenomena into constituent parts. What is the opposite of analysis, and what does it achieve? 

Can science and the arts enrich each other? Support your argument with evidence from the text. 

Theseus descends into the Labyrinth, kills the Minotaur, then escapes the maze by retracing backward a long thread of yarn that he has unspooled from the Labyrinthine entrance. What do Theseus, the maze, the Minotaur, and the thread each represent in the story of science?