Science destroys poetry until the heart bursts into mysticism, and out of science brings poetry again, asserting a wonder and a vague mystery of life and feeling, beneath and beyond all science, and proclaiming the wonderfulness and mystery of that which we seem most familiarly to understand.

The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present, Time (Volume 9), The Highest Form of Expression (pp. 3319-3320)