Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:43:37 -0700
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Subject: PhysLINK.com Quote: Week of May 1, 2000
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PhysLINK.com Quote of the Week (ISSN 1099-8683)
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"I have a friend who's an artist and he's sometimes taken
a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up
a flower and say. "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree,
I think. And he says - " you see, I as an artist can see
how beautiful this is, but you as a scientist, oh, take
this all apart and it becomes a dull thing." And I think
that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that
he sees is available to other people and to me, too,
I believe, although I might not be quite as refined
aesthetically as he is, but I can appreciate the beauty
of a flower. At the same time I see much more about the
flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there,
the complicated actions inside which also have a beauty.
I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension of one
centimeter, there is also beauty at a smaller dimension,
the inner structure. Also the processes, the fact
that the colors in the flower are evolved in order to
attract insects to pollinate it is interesting - it means
that insects can see the color. In adds a question:
Does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower form?
Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions
which a science knowledge only adds to the excitement
and mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds;
I don't understand how it subtracts."
- Richard P. Feynman
(1918-1988)
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Richard P. Feynman
US physicist whose work laid the foundations of quantum
electrodynamics. For his work on the theory of radiation
he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics 1965 with Julian
Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonga. He also contributed
to many aspects of particle physics, including quark theory
and the nature of the weak nuclear force. He is also
considered one of the best physics teachers of modern times.
To learn more about Richard P. Feynman, visit:
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,34771+1+34161,00.html
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