Ode To Flower
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I have a friend who’s an artist,
and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well.
He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree.
Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is...
...but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,”
and I think that he’s kind of nutty.
First of all, although I might not be as quite refined and aesthetic as he is,
I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.
At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees.
Not just beauty at this dimensions, but also the beauty at smaller dimensions.
I could imagine the cells in there, also the processes, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty.
The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate,
it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color.
It adds a question: Why is it aesthetic?
All kinds of interesting questions which the science only adds to the
excitement,the mystery and the awe of a flower.
It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts....