We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
In plain words
Science isn't just numbers. It needs imagination, like poems do.
Where these words come from
- 82% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals (ed. Phebe Mitchell Kendall, 1896), p. 186 — a compilation of her own letters/journal entries, not a pithy quote-book; passes the primary-content bar though published posthumously.
- Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals
- 1896
