Ode to a Flower.
From the BBC Interview for Horizon 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
(bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/archive/feynman/)
Animated by Fraser Davidson (sweetcrude.tv).
(bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/archive/feynman/)
Animated by Fraser Davidson (sweetcrude.tv).
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 he says you see as I as an artist could 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, Although I may not be quite as refined as esthetically 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 mean it's not just a beauty at this dimensión there's also beauty at a swallow dimension I could imagine the cells in there, also the processes the complicated actions I would also have a beauty .
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. Why is it aesthetic?, All kinds of interesting questions which a science only adds to the excitement and mystery in the awe of a flower.
It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.
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