Artist Quote by Lewis Thomas

“Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.”

— Max Planck

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

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

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough…

— Isaac Asimov

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

— Anonymous

Science is the poetry of reality.

— Richard Dawkins

It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

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

— Lawrence Durrell

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

— Anonymous

“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same intuitions. Our…

— Carlo Rovelli

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