Richard Feynman discusses how our understanding of science only enhances the beauty of a flower in The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out. I have a friend who’s an artist and has 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. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think … Continue reading
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