“Science and mathematics
Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,
They never touch it”

— Robinson Jeffers

"The Silent Shepherds" (1958)
Context: Science and mathematics
Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,
They never touch it: consider what an explosion
Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world
If any mind for a moment touch truth.

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American poet 1887–1962

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