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It is commonly, but wrongly, thought that Science and Poetry are in opposition. They are, at least in the way I look at them, two separate means to a very common end. ... Science and poetry are two distinctly different fields; one deals with the objective, the other with the subjective. However, poetry, especially in modern times, has been inspired by and even “conditioned” by science. ... Also, poetry is a lot harder to define than science. One could say that there is a certain “science” to the more traditional, structured poems, but this does not encompass poetry as a whole. Lavina Greenlaw, “Poet in Residence” at the Science Museum of London, is quoted as saying “a good poet is also a good technician; to finish a poem and to let it become independent from you, you have to distance yourself and judge its shape and form, whether it worked – and those things involve craft and understanding.” To me, it sounds like she is justifying the use of “science” in the writing of poetry. ... Poets use literary techniques such as metaphors, alliteration, personification, analogies, and other poetic devices that play on syntax or imagery. ... Some of the best poems in history are universal and versatile, and cannot be pinpointed as to express one concrete thing. Whereas in science, we mostly deal in facts, data, and provable algorithms.