I've never said science and reason is the only way with which we can or should examine the universe--it is merely the best since it is the only one that draws conclusions based on evidence and rejects or suspends conclusions without it. One can find a, for lack of a better word, emotional truth in poetry, but one will never learn, in verse, how aerodynamics create lift beneath a plane's wings or decipher the interior of an atom with philosophy. Science alone can do this. Poetry is wonderful for taking the clinical and making it digestible, majestic even. And we mustn't lose it. To lose these things would cripple what gives us the ability to translate the beauty within #Feynman's proverbial flower. I am reminded of the line from #DeadPoetsSociety: "Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." But we also mustn't delude ourselves into thinking that the sort of truth we aspire to in prose is the same truth we aspire to in microbiology...that philosophy even tries to unpack quantum physics, as much as it preens about, pretending to. Sorry, but I spent more than 30 years believing something for which I had little to no evidence, and I now unapologetically embrace so called "scientism." It is not my new god. It is not my new religion. It is not sacred or inviolable. I embrace it because it works...bitches.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/06/the_science_delusion_by_curtis_white_reviewed.single.html

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