I came across this quote today in an article that I was reading and I thought a paraphrase to change "poet" to "scientist" would actually be more an accurate reflection of the goal of science in the liberal arts tradition.
"To a poet, nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination: he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast and elegantly little."
Samuel Johnson
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