Metaphorical Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

— Scarlett Thomas

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

Science is all metaphor.

— Timothy Leary

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

— David Whyte

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

— Gabriel Marcel

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

— Kenneth Arrow

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

“No writer in the world agonizes over words the way a scientist does. Terminology is everything: we identify something by its established name, describe…

— Hope Jahren

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

— Jonathan Miller

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton