 Why do the leprechauns prefer poets to scientists?
Every writer must seek his own Flowery Kingdom in imagination's wide demesne, and if that search can begin and end on Earth his problem has been greatly simplified. But its small, mischievous pilots had a rendezvous with destiny—on Earth. Perhaps you had better take my word for it that without this equation—correctly stated, mind you—mankind would be well advised not to make a first trip to the moon. I smiled, and the foreman of the leprechauns—if that's what he was—saw me smile and became stiff and alert for a moment, as though suspecting that perhaps I actually could see him. Or so the legends affirmed, though I've wondered often about the truth of them.
 Poets are less likely than scientists to want to capture and experiment with the leprechauns
 Poets are more likely than scientists to collaborate with leprechauns without expecting compensation  Poets are less likely than scientists to want to capture and experiment with the leprechauns  Poets are less likely than scientists to understand the leprechauns' mission  Poets are more likely than scientists to show compassion to non-human species