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Imagination, beauty, and poetry in physics

I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein, 1929 intervie…1
What I cannot create, I do not understand
Richard Feynman, Journal of Ce…2
It is by logic we demonstrate, it is by intuition we invent.
Henri Poincaré, Science and Me…3
Physical laws should have mathematical beauty.
Paul Dirac, Moscow State Unive…4
when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
Niels Bohr, via Werner Heisenb…56