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Science? Poetry.

Poetry can be valuable to scientists. Contrary to portrayals in books and other media, science is not just beakers, radiation, and whiteboards covered in equations. One of the most important parts of science is interpreting the data you have obtained, especially when the correct interpretation is hidden or non-intuitive. This is where poetry comes in. Poetry is likewise something that seldom has an obvious meaning, oftentimes requiring analysis and a great deal of thought to comprehend. This Another important point is that the "hard sciences" (physics, chemistry, earth science, sometimes biology) is far from the full extent of science. Science also includes disciplines like anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and economics. Here, poetry has a more immediate connection. Linguistics is probably the most obvious, as poems are fundamentally things of language. Poetry can also provide psychological and sociological insight because poems reflect onto the psychology