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Scientific Innovation Sometimes Sounds Like Poetry, And I Would Claim That It Is, At Least In The Earliest Stages.
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Scientific innovation sometimes sounds like poetry, and I would claim that it
is, at least in the earliest stages. The ideal scientist can be said to think
like a poet, work like a clerk, and write like a journalist.
-- Edward O. Wilson, "Biophilia"
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