• Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.

    Richard P. Feynman: Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms.  Nothing is "mere".  I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them.  But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why?  It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it.  For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.