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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlege

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

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel is saying that combining science and poetry into one concept doesn't make sense because their purposes and methods are fundamentally different. He suggests that trying to make science poetic or poetry scientific is logically inconsistent and unlikely to work.

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