"When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a
shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing-room
full of dukes.
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the
world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.
Unfortunately, poetry cannot celebrate them, because their deeds
are concerned with things, not persons and are, therefore, speechless."
W.H.Auden, The Dyers Hand, 1963
Quoted at the beginning of
Science and the Shabby Curate of Poetry. Essays about the two cultures.
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