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Richard Feynman on the appreciation of nature. Video is from 1981 BBC Interview. The interview is also the subject of Feynman's book ...
More clips from the Interview @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/progr... Richard Feynman on the appreciation of nature. Video is from 1981 BBC Interview. The interview is also the subject of Feynman's book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
I have a friend who's an artist and he's some times 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 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 that 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.
It adds a question -- does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms that are...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.
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Tapecutter59: The term stoner implies a person who expresses views on life which mostly appeal only to other stoners, unlike Richard. Well at least to me id does.
Carl Sagan smoked a lot of marijuana. I'd be surprised if feynman never tried it. At any rate, there's nothing in the world I love more than to get sort of high and program, read about science or mathematics, listen to lectures, etc...
Yes and some people don't appreciate what others do, and that is quite alright and doesn't have to subtract anything, it is the subjective view of somebody not a judgement. In fact it is important to know that any subtraction experienced is in the mind of the one experiencing, not the one expressing his/hers opinion.
Some people think science will rob them of their sense of awe and wonder at the universe. However the words of almost any great scientist you can think of will demonstrate that "awe and wonder" is what motivates them.
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"oooh...I see the cosmos...and the stardust..."
Feinman and Sagan both rock.
RIP to both of them
I feel the same way about women.
Some people think science will rob them of their sense of awe and wonder at the universe.
However the words of almost any great scientist you can think of will demonstrate that "awe and wonder" is what motivates them.