Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Mystery and Majesty of Matter

It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it was in a great part of its history, and as it is in a great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are fully appreciated to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to view life as part of this universal mystery of greatest depth, is to sense an experience, which is very rare and very exciting. It usually ends in laughter and a delight in the futility of trying to understand what this atom in the universe is, this thing - atoms with curiosity - that looks at itself and wonders why it wonders.
Richard Feynman

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