SAFETYPIN°ARCHIVES N°1. Volume 1 Printemps 2008     “ALL DESIGN IS QUITE USELESS.” Why is it that no science is able to explain, or predict, the phenomenal qualities of colors: what they look like, how they are related to one another, and then how they strike us, singly or in combination, in the aesthetic sphere? As the very existence of the Goethe propositions shows, we know these things, and can express in words what we know. But this knowledge will not belong to science.