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Wallace Stevens
(1879 - 1955)
American poet.
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Science Quotes by Wallace Stevens (2 quotes)
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
— Wallace Stevens
Adagia. In Opus Postumous: Poems, Plays, Prose (1958), 158.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
— Wallace Stevens
John Mitchinson and John Lloyd, If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?: Smart Quotes for Dumb Times (2009), 217.
Quotes by others about Wallace Stevens (1)
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.
In Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony(1984), 209.
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) -- 
