Conscious Quote by Wilfred Owen

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

— Paul Nurse

“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

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the…

— Louise Erdrich

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

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

— David Whyte

“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

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

— Joseph Campbell

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

— Maryanne Wolf

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

— Jon Spaihts