We especially need imagination in science. It is n... -Maria Mitchell

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Maria Mitchell , Scientist
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We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we thin...
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the...
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good....
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God....
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry....
We especially need imagination in science....
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness....
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!...
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment....
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle....

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...