Aesthetic Quote by Paul Nurse

“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 am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

— Wilfred Owen

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

— Freeman Dyson

“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

“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

“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

“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining,…

— Carl Sagan

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

— Novalis

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

— Lawrence Durrell

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It…

— Richard Dawkins

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.”

— William Wordsworth