Poetic Science

"Poets who have sung of despair in the midst of prosperity, and of hope amid darkest gloom, have been the true metaphysicians of nature."

~ John Dewey, Experience and Nature

"It is not possible to do the work of science without using a language that is filled with metaphors. [Useful scientific] explanations...must necessarily involve the use of metaphorical language. ...Indeed, the entire body of modern science rests on Descartes's metaphor of the world as a machine."

~ Richard Lewontin (The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism and Environment)