The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as…

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive,…

— Anonymous

“A picture, after all, is just a symbol, a metaphor for something that cannot be translated.”

— Shelan Rodger

“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Science is the poetry of reality.

— Richard Dawkins

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 later poetry has become science.

— James Russell Lowell

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

— Ouida

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science.

— James Russell Lowell

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite…

— Anonymous

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

— Joseph Campbell

“[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is itself poetic.…

— Herbert Spencer

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“To me faith, science, poetry, all same, many lanes to lift our one humankind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always…

— L.P. Jacks