Science versus Poetry: An Eighteenth-Century Dilemma

Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 45 (4):578-589 (1970)
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For Diderot, the man who discovers significant truths not through the experimental method but through global intuition is a genius, a kind of visionary poet.

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