Science Erasure Poetry

the eternal mystery,
the infinite order,
the illimitable spirit

revealed in astronomical
arrangement

• Excerpts from Albert Einstein’s “The World as I see It,” Galileo’s “The Essential Galileo,” Isaac Newton’s “The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,” and Richard Feynman’s “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”

advanced computers
mentally communicate
using the power of
possibilities

this technology is
electrical,
these signals
change
every millisecond
as they pass through
the skull,
recreating internal
imagery

the blood flow
within the
computer
creates a
mathematical
Mona Lisa

• Excerpts from Michio Kaku’s “The Future of the Mind”

Earth
in the solar system

Earth
of ancient
geological
time.

Could
intelligent life
happen
in
4.6 billion years?

• Excerpts from Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” series

the stars
in the flower

the geometry of space

interconnecting with
all life.

• Excerpts from Richard Feynman’s “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”

Life is
perseverance
in the historical
dark

The old
spirit of
mind is
the death
of adventure

• Excerpts from Marie Curie’s “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”

Man is descended from
ignorance more frequently
than knowledge

• Excerpts from Charles Darwin’s “On The Origins of Species”