We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
In plain words
Science isn't just numbers. It needs imagination, like poems do.
Where these words come from
- 82% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals (ed. Phebe Mitchell Kendall, 1896), p. 186 — a compilation of her own letters/journal entries, not a pithy quote-book; passes the primary-content bar though published posthumously.
- Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals
- 1896
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Truth is sought for its own sake.
Ibn al-HaythamA wonder of such nature I experienced as a child of 4 or 5 years, when my father showed me a compass.
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PlatoGive me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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Ibn al-HaythamA wonder of such nature I experienced as a child of 4 or 5 years, when my father showed me a compass.Albert EinsteinWonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.PlatoGive me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.ArchimedesI don't study to know more, but to ignore less.Sor Juana Inés de la CruzThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare