“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Variant: Science is the poetry of reality.
Context: The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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