Frontiers Quote by Paul Dirac

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in…

— Paul Dirac

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

“[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

“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign…

— Blaise Pascal

“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

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

— George Meredith

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

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no…

— William Carlos Williams

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

— Allen Tate

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot…

— Henry R. Luce