I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.
Interpretation
Embrace the mysteries of nature without overanalyzing them to find joy in their existence.
Richard P. Feynman encourages us to appreciate nature's wonders without the need for complete understanding. By accepting that not everything can be rationalized, we open ourselves to the beauty and enchantment that nature has to offer, leading to a more fulfilling experience.
In practice
In a nature-themed presentation, I would quote Feynman to inspire awe in the audience.
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.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.
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