Poetic aspects of science
Blake apprehends | Whitman asserts | Jeffers analyzes
"Auguries of Innocence"
by William Blake
"To see a World in a grain of sand,And a Heaven in a wildflower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour."
"Song of Myself"
by Walt Whitman
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
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"Science"
by Robinson Jeffers
Man, introverted man, having crossed
In passage and but a little with the nature of things this latter century
Has begot giants; but being taken up
Like a maniac with self-love and inward conflicts cannot manage his hybrids.
Being used to deal with edgeless dreams,
Now he's bred knives on nature turns them also inwards:
they have thirsty points though.
His mind forebodes his own destruction;
Acteon who saw the goddess naked among the leaves and his hounds tore him.
A little knowledge, a pebble from the shingle,
A drop from the oceans: who would have dreamed this infinitely little too much?
Defining the characteristics of effective research and discovery in science
measurable (quantifiable)
empirical (detectable)
define | Science as a story | Technology came first? | paradox | order | life | light
