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Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.84,0:00:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a friend who is an artist, and has sometimes
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.22,0:00:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taken a view which I don't agree with very well.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.57,0:00:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'll hold up a flower and say "Look how beautiful it is"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.95,0:00:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'll agree. And he says you see as an artist I can see how beautiful this is,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.83,0:00:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing. And I think that he's kind of nutty.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.93,0:00:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe, although
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.90,0:00:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.32,0:00:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.12,0:01:01.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.37,0:01:04.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.62,0:01:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it's not just beauty at this dimension of one centimeter, there's also beauty at smaller dimensions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.80,0:01:19.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The inner structure, also the processes, the fact that the colors and the flower are evolved in order
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.19,0:01:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.22,0:01:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means that insects can see the color.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.92,0:01:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms that... why is it aesthetic...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.88,0:01:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all kinds of interesting questions which with science, knowledge, only adds to the excitement,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.19,0:01:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mystery, and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.85,0:01:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you expected science to give all the answers to the wonderful questions about what we are,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.37,0:02:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we are going, what the meaning of the universe is, and so on, then I think you could easily become
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.05,0:02:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disillusioned and look for some mystic answer to these problems. How a scientist can take a mystic answer,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.85,0:02:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know, the whole spirit is to understand... Well, never mind that, I mean I don't understand that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.44,0:02:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But anyhow, if you think of it, the way I think of what we're doing is that we are exploring, we're trying to find out
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.77,0:02:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much as we can about the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.07,0:02:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People say to me "Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.08,0:02:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No I'm not, I'm just looking to find out more about the world, and if it turns out there is a simple
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.50,0:02:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ultimate law that explains everything, so be it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.22,0:02:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be very nice to discover. If it turns out it's like an onion with millions of layers,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.46,0:02:41.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're just sick and tired of looking at the layers, then that's the way it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.23,0:02:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But whatever way it comes out, nature is there and she's going to come out the way she is.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.53,0:02:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, when we go to investigate it, we shouldn't pre-decide what it is we're trying to do
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.10,0:02:53.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except to find out more about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.89,0:03:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, one thing is: I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.26,0:03:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.82,0:03:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.39,0:03:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.81,0:03:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there are many things I don't know anything about.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.54,0:03:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.82,0:03:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.14,0:03:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as far as I can tell possible. It doesn't frighten me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.67,0:03:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so altogether I can't believe the special stories
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.46,0:03:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.39,0:03:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too simple, too connected...too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.75,0:04:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the aspects of god came to the Earth, mind you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.16,0:04:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look at what's out there, it isn't in proportion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.61,0:04:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, it's no use arguing, I can't argue it. I'm just trying
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.10,0:04:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell you: with the scientific view, my father's view, that we should look to see what's true and what
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.77,0:04:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may not be true; once you start doubting, which to me is a very fundamental part of my soul, is to doubt,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.20,0:04:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to ask; when you doubt and ask, it gets a little harder to believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.88,0:04:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beauty
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