You might remember a few weeks ago I wrote a post about why I enjoy the arts. This week I'm going to contrast this and explore my interest in the sciences.
It's worth noting that I have an annoyingly mathematical mind and find logic to be rather intuitive. This is useful when I'm doing maths, but tends to be of limited help in other pursuits, such as art (not that maths isn't in art, but I'll get to that later. If I remember) or holding a conversation. I would prefer a creative mind over a logical one, but as it is I just have to make creative use of logic.
My logical mind was a bit annoying to me for a while as I thought that beauty existed mostly in art, not science. Then I watched The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman. Feynman was a Nobel laureate in physics and is one of my favourite people. You should watch The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. In it he describes how the beauty of a flower is not just in how it looks, but also in the complexity of the processes going on inside it. A few days ago I applied this thinking to the world and visualised the processes going on everywhere. The movement of nutrients in plants, the heat transfer that creates huge weather systems, the beautiful chaos that determines the flight of a flock of birds and many other processes. Science is infinitely complex and ridiculously simple at the same time.
Science has the potential to be just as beautiful as art if it is seen in the right way. Likewise, science can be used to inspire beautiful art. And that is its draw.
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