Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

Art is I; science is we.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

Throughout history, rich nations have gotten to the future first. Their companies can afford to equip their tinkerers and visionaries with the most advanced materials, instruments and knowledge.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.

You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different than the present, and the present is past, as we say it. I think I, by nature, am an optimist. Maybe I was driven to escape from my childhood and to be something, create my own world or career the way I wanted it to be. And I keep doing that in very interesting ways.

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us feel that it's possible. Our minds open up to what they show us could be. We dream with them. We get excited with them, drawing on all our abilities to create the future.