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motherlover  ·  4338 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do physicists believe in God?

What I particularly like about this video is not the denial of God but that it illustrates that those of us who are more concerned with what is real and provable are no less capable of numinous feelings, no less enraptured by beauty and mystery, no less "human."

It reminds me of an anecdote by Dr. Feynman in which he was being admonished by an artist friend of his over the beauty of a flower. The artist claimed that he recognized the simple beauty of the flower, scientists destroyed the image by deconstructing everything to figure out how it works and why it exists. Feynman responded by saying that while the artist simply enjoyed the pretty colors and curvature of the petals, the scientist can see all the things that make up it's structure and how it relates to everything around it and the millions of years of existence that led to it and was awestruck by the beauty of the entire universe in one simple flower.

Or something like that. It's been years, so i'm paraphrasing.