Poems of Science

Good quotes are rare in the history of science. The striking utterances which scientists have managed to produce are often over-used.

Newton, Darwin and Einstein provide a slim range of comments on God and Nature which crop up in almost every anthology. So historians of science are always on the look-out for potent means of encapsulating their subject-matter and capturing their audience.

 

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