Accounts Quote by James Russell Lowell

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

— James Russell Lowell

“Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science,…

— Ruth Padel

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

— Lawrence Durrell

“[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

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and…

— Samuel Johnson

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the…

— Thomas Malthus

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

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

— Albert Einstein

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must…

— Anonymous

In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and…

— Forrest Gander

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

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Science is the poetry of reality.

— Richard Dawkins