Richard P. Feynman
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I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, Look how beautiful it is, and I'll agree. But then he'll say, I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull. I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts. ✨ What Do You Care What Other People Think?. Book by Richard P. Feynman, The Making of a Scientist, p. 11, 1988.

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