Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for November 04, 2024
Transcript:
A Poet Once Said… Poet: The whole universe is in a glass of wine. We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood, but it is true that if, we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics. The twisting liquid, which evaporates depending on the wind and weather. The reflections in the glass. And our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth’s rocks. And in its composition we see the secrets of the universe’s age. And the evolution of stars. What strange arrays of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering the cause of much disease. How vivid is the caret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts… PHYSICS BIOLOGY GEOLOGY ASTRONOMY PSYCHOLOGY And so on… …remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure. DRINK IT AND FORGET IT ALL! - Richard Feynman
Yakety Sax 18 days ago
“If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.”
“See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
“What one fool can understand, another can.”
“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.”
“The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.”—Richard P. Feynman
FreyjaRN Premium Member 18 days ago
I see his point. Time to have some mead.
Olddog1 18 days ago
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand/ And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,/ Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/ And Eternity in an hour.” William Blake
DawnQuinn1 18 days ago
I don’t see his point. Too much wine and we get car accidents, people killed, property damage, lives ruined, lawsuits .. ad infinitum. I prefer to stay sober thank you.
LAFITZGERALD 18 days ago
My dearly departed mother would love to have this panel!!
PoodleGroomer 17 days ago
Drinking slows reflexes and thought. I would like to see Fenyman solve physics math problems and juggle on his unicycle after several glasses of wine.
larryculley 17 days ago
All you killjoys: “Dos’t thou think that because of thee there shall be no cakes and ale!?” In vino veritas!