“Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.”

Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born (Penguin, 1990), pp. 176

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Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright 1930–2017

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