ABSTRACT
The scientific pattern may be a network of ideas mathematically expressed, as in the physical sciences, or it may be a set of descriptive logical classifications, as in the biological, mental, and social sciences. Science is not interested in a static universe but in the changes which give rise to observation; changes periodic such as reproduction of life or circulation of planets or crystal growth, or changes catastrophic such as the disruption of an atom or of a great star, or changes gradual and statistical such as those we call evolutionary. The contention that a poetic view of Time could be akin to that of the mystics who include worshipper, lover, and idealist philosopher, will be presented in many quarters. The status of the poetic impulse may be the creation of imagery for public expression of that level of experience whose private cherishing contained the essence of worship.
