"The universe is made of stories, not atoms"<p>When I first came across this quote from the poem "The Speed of Darkness" by Muriel Rukeyser I thought it was all too typical glib and hand-wavy poetic license. I was a STEM person, I knew the world was made of atoms, not stories.<p>But the years ticked by and eventually I realized that the atoms were just stories too.<p>+1 for the poets.