"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth"

"It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science"

"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science"

"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science"

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science"

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"

"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way"

"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction"