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Science is the poetry of reality - Dawkins
How I'm rushing through this! How much each sentence in this
brief story contains. "The stars are made of the same atoms
as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to
give a lecture on. Poets say science takes away from the
beauty of the stars - mere globs of atoms. Nothing is "mere".
I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them.
But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches
my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch
one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a
part - perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star,
as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of
Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point
when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or
the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery
to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth
than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the
present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of
Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense
spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
-- Richard P. Feynman, a footnote in "Six Easy Pieces"
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Words of poet-naturalist René-Richard Castel: “A poet must not aim to teach and advance a science as much as to show its advantages and make it loved.”
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Only you have to deal with the shadows and illusions created by your body and mind!
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You see strange shadows in your eyesThere is nothing, the test saysYou feel several silhouettes in your mind's arenasThere is nothing, the world says But are they really illusions?Maybe Sometimes,…Continue
Try to Listen: The unsaid words of the dead are blowing in the wind
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What anger and anti-feelings bringWhen the mind is firingThe venom of loathing revaluationIt is a strange situation In which a heart cannot hear and see the others' point of view Launching hurtful…Continue
The wonderful world of scientific research
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Each time I read something newKnowing what thoughts lead to the ones anewBorn out of the prier information the grey matter knewWhat creative connections took it to this enlightened viewWhen a…Continue
ULTIMATE TRUTH
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As I sat on a rock in a cemetery of my native village Looking at the gentle water flow in a small rivulet surrounded by a hilly cage And half-buried bones of the dead I remembered all the words…Continue
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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 6, 2013 at 7:25am
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http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/science-and-poetry
Science and PoetryAnna Lena Phillips
Poetry and science go way back: Over the centuries, they have occasionally gotten together, like old friends who find themselves in the same city and meet up for tea, only to head home the next day and lose touch again. Much has changed since the two disciplines’ earlier encounters—which resulted, for instance, in late-1700s scientific treatises written in poetic form. Poets who investigate scientific concepts, and scientists tempted by verse, are now crafting work that invites readers into scientific cultures and bodies of knowledge even as it raises questions about the research enterprise. The six books reviewed in this issue—five poetry collections and one book of essays—are a sample of recent work in poetry that engages with scientific and mathematical constructs. At the end of the section, we present new poems from four poets whose work is informed by science.
Poetry in the Wild: Emily Grosholz reviews Approaching Ice, by Elizabeth Bradfield, and Darwin: A Life in Poems, by Ruth Padel.
Quantum Metaphors: Robin Chapman reviews Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, by Alice Major.
Querying Science: Rick Mullin reviews Hypotheticals, by Leigh Kotsilidis.
Songs of Scientists: Sarah Glaz reviews The Scientific Method, by Mary Alexandra Agner.
A Useful Pageant: Anna Lena Phillips reviews Between Page and Screen, by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse.
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http://roaldhoffmann.com/poetry-books
Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann (Nobel 1981 chemistry)
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Mario De Paz • I enclose here my only poem in english. Maybe there are mistakes, but it is quite difficult compose rhymes in a language known uite approximately.
DiscoveryIs the discovery a creative act
Exploding from a darting intuition
When put in front of a lifelike fact.Difficult to be transformed into equation
To demonstrate as valid the averment
Spurted as flash with no explanation.A logic pattern is a more unsure event
Because is asking conditions more strict
Free thought allowing to a much less extent.With logics as recipes you can well depict
Any cognition you already know
Seldom new knowledge then you may predict.La scoperta (original version in Italian language)
È la scoperta un atto creativo
Prodotto dal guizzar d’intuizione
Messa di fronte ad un problema vivo.Si trasforma a fatica in equazione
Per dimostrare valido l’asserto
Visto in un lampo senza spiegazione.Il ragionare logico è più incerto
Perché richiede condizioni strette
Che lascian poco ad uno spazio aperto.Con la ragion puoi scrivere ricette
Per divulgare ciò che ti sia noto.
Di aprirsi al nuovo raramente ammette.
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Kids' science poetry books tend to be focused on a theme, e.g. dinosaurs (Prelutsky), space (Florian), day in the life of a vulture (Sayre), what is science (Dotlich, Hopkins), deep ocean creatures (Cyrus), etc., with one poem per page or spread. Check out the Juvenile 811 section of your local library or ask the children's librarian for suggestions. Books made up of a single long poem (i.e. not a collection) are generally interfiled in the subject areas. And if you really want to stretch your mind, check out the Fleischman poems for four voices (Big Talk) or poems for two voices (Joyful Noise).There was a time when most newspapers had a children's section, but that's a rarity these days. I've had luck selling science poems to children's magazines, though. Have a look at Highlights for Children and the Carus "bug" magazines (Cricket, Spider, Ladybug). Typically, a poem needs to take on a very narrow slice of science with a subject concrete enough to allow for illustration possibilities. For example, one of my HfC poems for 5-9 yr olds talks about how three different insect "mouths" work (straws, sponges, "jaws"), one verse each. Onomatopoeia, similes, and repetition are good choices, especially for the younger crowd.
The Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market book (Writer's Digest Books) lists which children's publishers publish poetry. It's mostly focused on U.S. publishers, but does contain an international section. Published annually. Most libraries carry it.
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Discussion on science and poems
https://www.youtube.com/user/ParticleMen?feature=watch
Jon Sciezka's book, Science Verse? http://www.amazon.ca/Science-Verse-Jon-Scieszka/dp/0670910570 It might be a good teaching tool.
Also, there is a Centre for Poetry and Science at the University of Liverpool. http://www.liv.ac.uk/poetryandscience/ It might be a source of inspiration.
There are a number of arts and science festivals, such as FAST at MIT ( http://arts.mit.edu/fast/ ), See Further ( http://seefurtherfestival.org/ ) and Subtle Technologies ( http://subtletechnologies.wordpress.com/events/festival-2012/ ). There might be some inspiration on their websites, or maybe you could even go to one of them!
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The Poet Scientist: Where Wonder and Data CollidePlease fill in the blanks below to register for the meeting.
Meeting Description:
Art is celebrated for reviving the human spirit, but there is a legion of artists whose work also restores the landscape. - See more at: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/6768/#sthash.zUHNWh5T.dpuf
Edward Abbey wrote that "a landscape . . . can best be understood and given human significance by poets who have their feet planted in concrete—concrete data—and by scientists whose heads and hearts have not lost the capacity for wonder."How can the voice and mind of the artist and the scientist be combined to form a better understanding of landscape? What is it like to traverse these different ways of knowing and experiencing a place? What are the inherent challenges and rewards?
In celebration of National Poetry Month and Earth Day, we invite you to join a free live discussion and reading hosted by Orion's poetry editor, Hannah Fries, featuring poet-scientists Gary Paul Nabhan, Elizabeth Bradfield, and Eva Saulitis, along with geologist Fred Swanson. The event will take place on April 23, at 4 p.m. Eastern/1 p.m. Pacific.
Orion has long celebrated interdisciplinary ways of knowing—including the idea that, combined, art and science can be a powerful catalyst for change. We hope you can join us for this unique discussion.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-meets-Poetry-Proceedings-ESOF2012/d...
Science meets Poetry 3: Proceedings from ESOF2012 in Dublin [Paperback]
Jean-Patrick Connerade (Author), Iggy McGovern (Author)What mysterious forces bring Science and Poetry together? Why did William Hamilton, Tycho Brahe and Marie Curie all write verse? How is it that Omar Khayyam wrote a treatise on algebra and why was Percy Bysshe Shelley fascinated by chemistry? To the contrary, why did Mary Shelley dream up the tale of Frankenstein? Poets from all over Europe gather at each Euroscience Open Forum ESOF to consider the complex relationship between Science and Poetry. From their poems and from their debates, discover a fruitful dialogue between advanced research and the poetry of our times. Claude CUDEL, Carmel CUMMINS, Patrick CUNNINGHAM, Kate DEMPSEY, Noel DUFFEY, Angela FINN, Susan FLYNN, Assumpcio FORCADA, Christohe GOARANT, Seamus HEANEY, Vital HEURTEBIZE, Michael D. HIGGINS, Caroline HURLEY, Eric JACQUELIN, Gabriele KELLY, Mario MARKUS, Iggy McGOVERN, Alla-Valeria MIKHALEVICH, Mary MONTAGUE, Orlagh O'FARRELL, Maeve O'SULLIVAN, Maurice RIORDAN, Jane ROBINSON, Uli ROTHFUSS, John SAUNDERS, Larry STAPLETON, Charlotte UECKERT, Breda WALL-RYAN and Denis WEAIRE. The book contains the Proceedings (lectures and poems) of a regular event 'Science meets Poetry', which has taken place every two years since 2006 in a different European City (Munich, Barcelona, Turin, Dublin ...) wherever the ESOF Forum happens to occur. Brief biographies and photographs of the poets are included.With contributions from more than thirty contemporary poets, which include the President of Ireland and one Nobel Laureate of literature: Nadine AMILE, Michel BENARD, Una BROWN, Mari-Noëlle CELERIER, CHAUNES, Jean-Patrick CONNERADE, Claude CUDEL, Carmel CUMMINS, Patrick CUNNINGHAM, Kate DEMPSEY, Noel DUFFEY, Angela FINN, Susan FLYNN, Assumpcio FORCADA, Christohe GOARANT, Seamus HEANEY, Vital HEURTEBIZE, Michael D. HIGGINS, Caroline HURLEY, Eric JACQUELIN, Gabriele KELLY, Mario MARKUS, Iggy McGOVERN, Alla-Valeria MIKHALEVICH, Mary MONTAGUE, Orlagh O'FARRELL, Maeve O'SULLIVAN, Maurice RIORDAN, Jane ROBINSON, Uli ROTHFUSS, John SAUNDERS, Larry STAPLETON, Charlotte UECKERT, Breda WALL-RYAN and Denis WEAIRE. The book contains the Proceedings (lectures and poems) of a regular event 'Science meets Poetry', which has taken place every two years since 2006 in a different European City (Munich, Barcelona, Turin, Dublin ...) wherever the ESOF Forum happens to occur. Brief biographies and photographs of the poets are included.
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A poem by Walt Whitman:
WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.Whitman goes to the trouble of pointing out that the astronomer is "learn'd," and he makes of this a perjorative of sorts by his ultimate implication that one's intuitive and emotional comprehension of the cosmos is a more direct, profound, grasp of its truths than are the methodolies of science. He seems to be saying that science strips nature of any sense of transcendence, reducing it to no more than boring charts and diagrams.
Biased toward its non-linear embrace of the poetic, mysterious, oceanic sense of one's connection to the cosmos. Its stereotyping of science is naive and outdated -- and that any notion of "mystical" in the poem as meaning "supernatural," is wrong-headed as a modern interpretation.
As the interest in art/science grows and progresses, to parse these sorts of distinctions along the way -- to avoid the movement's possible decline into new-age sentimentalities, fodder for religion's apologists, and accusations of pseudo-scientific thinking.
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http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/04/sysbio.sy...
The Tree of LifeDavid R. Maddison
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA; E-mail: david.maddison@science.oregonstate.edu
I think that I shall never see
A thing so awesome as the Tree
That links us all in paths of genes
Down into depths of time unseen;
Whose many branches spreading wide
House wondrous creatures of the tide,
Ocean deep and mountain tall,
Darkened cave and waterfall.
Among the branches we may find
Creatures there of every kind,
From microbe small to redwood vast,
From fungus slow to cheetah fast.
As glaciers move, strikes asteroid
A branch may vanish in the void:
At Permian's end and Tertiary's door,
The Tree was shaken to its core.
The leaves that fall are trapped in time
Beneath cold sheets of sand and lime;
But new leaves sprout as mountains rise,
Breathing life anew 'neath future skies.
On one branch the leaves burst forth:
A jointed limb of firework growth.
With inordinate fondness for splitting lines,
Armored beetles formed myriad kinds.
Wandering there among the leaves,
In awe of variants Time conceived,
We ponder the shape of branching fates,
And elusive origins of their traits.
Three billion years the Tree has grown
From replicators' first seed sown
To branches rich with progeny:
The wonder of phylogeny.
© The Author(s) 2012. Published by Oxford University Press.
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