"I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself:
I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
It’s difficult to describe because it’s an emotion. It’s analogous to
the feeling one has in religion that has to do with a god that controls
everything in the universe: there’s a generality aspect that you feel
when you think about how things that appear so different and behave so
differently are all run ‘behind the scenes’ by the same organization,
the same physical laws. It’s an appreciation of the mathematical beauty
of nature, of how she works inside; a realization that the phenomena we
see result from the complexity of the inner workings between atoms; a
feeling of how dramatic and wonderful it is. It’s a feeling of awe — of
scientific awe — which I felt could be communicated through a drawing to
someone who had also had that emotion. I could remind him, for a
moment, of this feeling about the glories of the universe."
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
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