Accounts Quote by Charles Lamb

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of…

— Sherman Alexie

“[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

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

— George Meredith

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

“The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that Nature is the immense shadow of man. A…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart”

— Jeffrey Moore

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

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

— Joseph Campbell

“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?”

— Carl Sagan