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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Technology, Innovation, Science, Culture

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. Louie Schwartzberg

Change, Butterfly, Moment, You, Always

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields. Steve Jobs

Best, Science, Great, Amazing, People

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Muhammad Iqbal

Hands, Die, Born, Politicians, Hearts

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. - T. S. Eliot

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot

Poetry, Mature, Immature, Steal, Imitate

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Love, Wisdom, Man, Time, Truth

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. Jason Silva

Future, Building, Need, Engineers, Sense

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri

Poetry, Literature, Always, Theme, Epic

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates

Wisdom, Poetry, You, Find, Kind, Knowing

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. - Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. Socrates

I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. Russell Smith

Gardening, Crazy, Tears, Friends, Artist

Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing. James Fenton

Creative, Writing, Direction, Friends

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunshine, Ghosts, House, Hill, Old, Many

Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. Billy Joel

Life, Perception, Musicians, Always

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle

Art, Lies, Telling, Who, Taught, Other

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Barack Obama

Friendship, Performance, Friends, Black

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry, World, Legislators

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. Plato

Great, Wise, Understand, Things, Which

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. Stephen King

Daily, God, People, Think, Speak, View

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Walt Whitman

Great, Must, Audiences

There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Life, Soul, Suffering, Listening, Poetry

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. Tom Brokaw

Effort, Kiss, Universe, Search, You

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Thomas Aquinas

Wonder, Philosophy, Way, Big, Awe, Alike

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. George Orwell

Language, Creation, Workers, Manual

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. J. D. Salinger

Weather, Emotions, Always, Things

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. William Butler Yeats

Growing Up, Growing, Learn, Now, Top

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