Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.
Interpretation
Gravitation is a fundamental force that cannot be fully explained by other known physical phenomena.
In this quote, Richard P. Feynman highlights the enigmatic nature of gravitation, suggesting that it stands alone as a fundamental force of nature, not easily relatable to other physical laws. This acknowledgment of its complexity underscores the importance of gravitation in understanding the universe and reflects on the limits of our current scientific knowledge.
In practice
In a science lecture discussing the fundamental forces of nature.
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.
As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce one Faced with the enormous sum of lucky draws behind the success of the evolutionary game, one may legitimately wonder to what extent this success is actually written into the fabric of the universe.
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