Scientific Poetry Quotes

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.

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

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!