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Conrad Aiken
(5 Aug 1889 - 17 Aug 1873)
American poet and ciritic.
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Science Quotes by Conrad Aiken (3 quotes)
[At a musical concert:]
…the music’s pure algebra of enchantment.
…the music’s pure algebra of enchantment.
— Conrad Aiken
In Louis Untermeyer, Modern American Poetry (1962), 430.
Hear how the ripples make a sound of chaos!
— Conrad Aiken
From 'Sound of Breaking', collected in Selected Poems (1918, 2003), 59.
What else, when chaos draws all forces inward
To shape a single leaf.
To shape a single leaf.
— Conrad Aiken
From poem, 'The Room'. Collected in Louis Untermeyer (ed.), Modern American Poetry: A Critical Anthology (1930), 600.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
