when trying to make sense of godels work , the mathematician and logician john myhill came to the logical deduction ( and its a beaut ) : no non-poetic account of reality can be complete.3 in his defense of poetry , the english romantic poet percy bysshe shelley contended that one of the sacred tasks of the artist is to absorb the new knowledge of the sciences and assimilate it to human needs , color it with human passions , transform it into the blood and bone of human nature.4 so when it comes to truth , were either in the hands of experts or poets .