Saturday, June 10, 2006

Scientist and artist

The beauty that [an artist] sees is available to other people -- and to [scientists] too. Although [the scientist] may not be quite as refined aesthetically as [the artist] is, he can appreciate the beauty of a flower. But at the same time, he can see much more in the flower than [the artist] sees. ... There's beauty not just at the dimension of one centimeter; there's also beauty at a smaller dimension.
-- Richard P. Feynman, "What do you care what other people think?"

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