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. . . .It comes from a slightly grainy filmed interview with the brilliant Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFM3rn4ldo who, smiling as he always seemed to be, talks about the aesthetics of science.’ An artist friend, he says, has argued that a scientist can’t appreciate a flower because he takes it all apart until it becomes dull. Feynman, in his disarming New York City accent, says,

I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more . . . 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, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower 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 exists in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetics? All kinds of interesting questions [by] which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery, and the awe of a flower. It also adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts. 0age 202

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