The Reason Why Scientists Need Poetry
Scientists need to read poetry in order to retain their humanity. There is something morbid and horrific about endless amounts of computations, algorithms, procedures, equations, formulas, and numbers. It's not natural, it's robotic. People aren't meant to be confined in a lab or an office crunching numbers and formulating theorems the entire day. However, many of us do it, and we enjoy it. Even so, everything must be done in moderation. Especially the work of the devil. At least once per day, the mathematician researching the Reimann hypothesis should take a break and read about the traveler and the road not taken. We weren't born counting numbers, we were born making wild sounds and incoherent noises, enjoying the splendor of life and all of its great gifts. However, as we grew older, we were introduced to science and all of its wonders. We learned about the stars, the sun, the moon, and the different planets in our solar system. Soon, we get lost in the wonder