In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.