“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars – mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is “mere”. I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? …What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not harm to the mystery to know a little more about it.
For far more marvellous is the truth than any artist of the past imagined it.
Why do the poets of the present not speak of it?” Richard Feynman