Until recently, I had some difficulty explaining the origin of the link between music and science. Of course, I understood this deep connection, that frequencies are ultimately numbers, and they relate to each other in rational intervals. This understanding is due to the fascinating fact that the ear has both qualitative and quantitative abilities: it has the ability to understand the moods/colors and the ratios of sounds. This ability makes it a pretty unique sense; in fact, it is the only sense that can accurately measure and “feel” at the same time. Full article here