There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
Science Quotes
Asimov, Jacob Bronowski, Einstein, Arthur Eddington and Carl Sagan lead the page. The most-sourced writer is Henri Poincaré, with several passages from Science and Hypothesis (1901) and The Value of Science (1905), including the one about doubting everything and believing everything being two equally convenient ways to avoid thinking.
Two entries are flagged. “Etymology is a science in which vowels signify nothing at all, and consonants very little” is credited to Voltaire as disputed, and the notes cite two scholarly articles on where the saying comes from. “Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences” is credited to Galileo and flagged misattributed.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.
Darwinian man though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved!
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.