Poems (not my own) on Astronomical Themes
Modern and Contemporary Poetry
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"Perhaps the kind of imagination it takes to conceive of a radical and complicated new scientific theory, and prove it, is not so different from what is required to envision, compose, and successfully execute a great poem. The human mind may not be as compartmentalized or fractured as we tend to believe. If science and art have anything in common it exists in the resources of the human brain and our ability to create something unforeseen and revolutionary out of our dreaming."
—Kurt Brown, from the introduction to Verse and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics
"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me."
—Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
—Bill Watterson
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The Animaniacs explain the universe!!...............The
Sesame Street explains it too:
