From the April 2002 Scientific American Magazine | 0 comments
AprilPoets often express deep insights into human nature with far less verbiage than scientists. Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, for example, is filled with pithy observations on the dualistic tensions of the human condition:
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
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