On the value of the poetic in science

Inspired by an awesome photo of the Earth and Moon… from Mars posted by ***Dave, I was reminded of this monologue by Carl Sagan on a picture of the Earth from a space probe out beyond the rings of Saturn.  Our world appeared as a single pixel, a pale blue dot in the frozen vastness.  And yet…

See, this is what I miss in the shout-a-logue between science and religion that today dominates the blogosphere and the surrounding culture wars.  Who’s filling this role now?  Is poetic language obsolete?  Is it buried forever beneath our anger?

Update: a nifty quote
“Science arose from poetry—when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.“
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Posted by George on 03/12/08 at 05:50 AM
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