Use of the poetic faculty in science?

Rem[ember] how the early Greeks had mystic anticipations of nearly all great modern scientific truths: the problem really is what place has imagination and the emotions in science: and primarily rem[ember] that man must use all his faculties in the search for truth: in this age we are so inductive that our facts are outstripping our knowledge – there is so much observation, experiment, analysis – so few wide conceptions … we want more ideas and [fewer] facts: the magnificent generalizations of Newton and Harvey c[oul]d never have been completed in this mod[ern] age where eyes are turned to earth and particulars.

Oscar Wilde, Oxford Notebooks