Quote#Poetry
The current opinion that science and poetry are opposed is a delusion
Quote byHerbert Spencer · 1820–1903
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lectures on Education delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, 1855, published in "What Knowledge is of Most Worth", The Westminster Review (July 1859) volume CXLI, p. 1-23, at p. 19.
English (original)
The current opinion that science and poetry are opposed is a delusion.
— Herbert Spencer
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