Accounts Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history,…

— Alex Garland

“[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

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

— Henry Beston

“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

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.”

— William Wordsworth

Science is the poetry of reality.

— Richard Dawkins

There's poetry in the real world; science is the poetry of reality.

— Anonymous

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

— Joseph Campbell

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

— Ada Lovelace

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

— Richard Dawkins