Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
Interpretation
Nature's beauty lies in its uncomplicated and straightforward essence.
This quote by Richard P. Feynman suggests that the inherent simplicity found in nature contributes to its profound beauty. By recognizing that nature operates with a clarity and elegance, we can appreciate its complexity without being overwhelmed by unnecessary intricacies, leading to a deeper understanding and admiration of the natural world.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about environmental conservation to highlight the importance of appreciating nature's simplicity.
The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?
We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
Water is on the table for every single one us. When it's gone, game over. I don't care what company you run; I don't care if you're Republican or liberal.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.
Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
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