Books Quote by Heidi Hammel

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

— Jason Silva

“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main…

— Marianne Moore

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging…

— Tim Minchin

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees.”

— Edward O. Wilson

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

— Anonymous

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

— E. O. Wilson

To be a poet you have to experiment.

— Matthea Harvey

A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening…

— Margaret Atwood