Art is certainly rooted from the idea of sense perception. One must let his/her mind wander beyond the reaches of the restrictive human mindset to create what we consider 'art'. Without this trait of perception, such capabilities would be impossible. Art, we probably think of artworks such as modeling, sketching, acrylic, Picasso etc. In the real sense of the word, art is any representation of human creativity which quite honestly, includes most man-made objects. Art is required from designing a sky scraper to organizing the furniture in the living room. Different people, depending on their 'sense perception', would do these activities differently. This is why, in an artistic point of view, it would be considered an asset.
Science is how we interpret and explain how everything in the physical world works and so sense perception could only refute or skew the general laws and truths. Over the past few centuries, our sciences and how we understand the world has excelled greatly upon knowing how things work from the discovery of the cell to the discovery of the evolution. However, even today, we have people such as religionists that continue the contradict these laws. It is argued that if religion never existed, then our technology would be far in the future by now. In a scientific sense, sense perception could only restrict the progress of science.
Art undoubtedly requires sense perception to exist. If not, possibly, all things would be created fully due to its use and practicality. However, stating sense perception is a liability in science is arguable. For science to exist in the first place, people must create an idea to find out a truth. They must perceive an idea before it may be a law or truth. For example, Isaac Newton's story of his theory of gravity is of him viewing an apple fall to the earth. One may see that simply see that as, however, Newton's sense perception allowed him to realize that the Earth's center drew the apple the fall. So upon seeing this example, we can deduce that the innovation of science is sense perception. Furthermore, we may not continue discovering new things without someone seeing things such as how Newton saw the Earth attract the apple.
In conclusion, to some degree, the statement lies true that sense perception is an asset to Art but a liability to science. However, sense perception, as a 'way of knowing', is a human trait that has allowed us to create, discover and innovate new things, in all kinds of forms.
