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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. -- Maria Mitchell
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. -- Walter Jon Williams
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality. -- Muriel Rukeyser
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. -- Robert Morgan
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. -- Lewis Thomas
Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support. -- Leon Black
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. -- Franz Grillparzer
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story. -- Jose Saramago
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. -- Philippe Petit
Science is the poetry of reality. -- Richard Dawkins
Poetry creates life; Science dissects death. -- Frederick William Robertson
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. -- Georges Seurat
If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science? -- Ada Lovelace
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry -- Jacob Bronowski
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality -- Richard Dawkins
Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare. -- Augustus William Hare
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. -- Joseph Campbell
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. -- Lawrence Durrell
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science. -- James Russell Lowell
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous. -- Albert Einstein
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. -- David Whyte
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. -- Theodore Sturgeon
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize -- Joseph Campbell
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. -- Gustave Flaubert
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. -- Mason Cooley
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. -- Ouida
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy. -- Henry Beston
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. -- Maria Mitchell
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science -- William Wordsworth
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them. -- Charles Buxton
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. -- Matthew Arnold
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success. -- Babette Deutsch
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil? -- Charles Lamb
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written. -- Samuel Johnson
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it. -- Joseph Wood Krutch

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