Richard Feynman on physics and chess

The one way, it's a fun analogy, to try to get some idea what we're doing trying to understand nature imagine that the gods are playing some great game, like chess. Let's say a chess game. And you don't know the rules of the game. But you're allowed to look at the board, at least from time to time, and at a little corner perhaps. And from these observations you try to figure out what the rules are of the game