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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
-- Maria Mitchell, (Aug 1 1818-1889), US astronomer, educator; She was the first professional woman astronomer; discovered a comet in 1847; first woman elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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