science takes away
from the beauty of stars –
mere globs
of gas atoms
Nothing is “mere”.
I too see the stars
on a desert night
and feel them.
But do I see less or more?
What is the pattern,
or the meaning,
or why?
It does not do harm
to the mystery
to know a little more about it.
Far more marvellous
is the truth
than any artists
of the past
imagined it.
From The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964). Submitted by Lisa Oliver.
Verbatim Poetry 