Education by the Muses

Education by the Muses is pre-scientific; it does not engage in measurement or analysis or inquiry into causes. “How I wonder what you are!” is not a question; it ends with an exclamation mark, or as Shakespeare called it, a point of admiration.  Before studying scientific astronomy one must admire and delight in the splendor of the heavens; before anatomizing the frog, one must make acquaintance with him in the celebrated and amusing frog who went a-wooing.

from Education by the Muses by Dennis Quinn