Why is culinary considered an art and a science?

Why is culinary considered an art and a science?
Cooking (the Culinary arts) is both an art and a science: It is a science because baking (and other forms of food preperation) is fundamentally chemistry. You have to know how certain ingredients will react chemically to produce the desired results. This isn't to say that you need to know how ALL the ingredients will react, but (just as an example) knowing how vinegar and baking soda react will determine how much of each you put into a recipe.

However, it is also an art because a good chef needs to have a pleasent asthetic, both in terms of flavor (of course the food has to taste good) but also in presentation (even if its tasty, if it looks like cat vomit, nobody's gonna wanna touch it). These, being subjective opinions, qualify cooking as an art.