I have posted below a wonderful video from the Symphony of Science website. In this video Dr. Richard Dawkins states that “science is the poetry of reality”. At first I thought the statement was perhaps “tongue-in-cheek” and not to be taken literally. However after familiarizing myself with the definition of poetry (please excuse me humanities scholars), I discovered that it is quite appropriate and indeed could be taken literally. In poetic literature art, writers use creativity in language (such as rhyme, ambiguity, symbolism, irony, assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc.) to express states of mind.   In science, we use creativity in method (scientific theory, scientific law, mathematics, experiment, computational algorithms, etc.) to express states of reality.  I am not sure if Dawkins was the first person to make that statement, but it sure is an eloquent thought that now makes quite a bit of sense to me.