{"id":37300,"date":"2012-03-17T19:35:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-have-a-friend-whos-an-artist-and-has-sometimes\/"},"modified":"2012-03-17T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T19:35:50","slug":"i-have-a-friend-whos-an-artist-and-has-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-have-a-friend-whos-an-artist-and-has-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I have a friend who\u2019s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don\u2019t agree with very well. He\u2019ll hold up a flower and say \u201clook how beautiful it is,\u201d and I\u2019ll agree. Then he says \u201cI as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,\u201d and I think that he\u2019s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it\u2019s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there\u2019s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. 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: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don\u2019t understand how it subtracts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong>Richard Feynman<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/31\/christopher-sykes-feynman\/\">on the interplay of art and science<\/a> \u2013 a <a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/post\/18336397231\/systematic-wonder-visualized\">magnificentintersection<\/a>. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who\u2019s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don\u2019t agree with very well. He\u2019ll hold up a flower and say \u201clook how beautiful it is,\u201d and I\u2019ll agree. Then he says \u201cI as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9HC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}