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12.31 bumping into beauty
grasping for the first time Dirac's equations describing quantum mechanics量子力学
I ask him what makes a theory beautiful, and he replies, "Simplicity, symmetry对称,均匀, elegance, and power.
conform to遵循
lay bare暴露,揭发,展开
puzzle out苦苦思索
gasping the rarefied纯净的,稀薄的 air
in a pinch在紧要关头,必要时
deliver to转交,交付,传达
swiftness迅速,快
fleeting短暂的,飞逝的 glory that stirs our hearts
take delight in乐于
to an extreme极度地,非常地
by a wide margin广泛的回旋余地
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe, as Einstein said, is that it's comprehensible.
Generation after generation, we puzzle out formulas, test them, and find, to an astonishing degree, that nature agrees.
You can do science without believing in a divine Legislator, but not without believing in laws.
Still, I remember glimpsing patterns in mathematics that seemed as bold and beautiful as a skyful of stars.
I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty.
"All nature is meant to make us think of paradise," Thomas Merton observed. Because the Creation puts on a nonstop show, beauty is free and inexhaustible, but we need training in order to perceive more than the most obvious kinds.
Just so, I believe, the experience of beauty is an echo of the order and power that permeate the universe. To measure background radiation, we need subtle instruments; to measure beauty, we need alert intelligence and our five keen senses.
Have we merely carried our animal need for shrewd perceptions to an absurd extreme? Or have we stumbled onto a deep congruence between the structure of our minds and the structure of the universe?
Beauty feeds us from the same source that created us.
A universe so prodigal of beauty may actually need us to notice and respond, may need our sharp eyes and brimming hearts and teeming minds, in order to close the circuit of Creation
Comment:
What a beautiful aticle!Citing what the article says,I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty,that is the feeling I merely have.
This article discribes the beautiful things from the eyes of scientists,which different from the things our common perpson simply assents,contrarily,a simple, symmetrical, elegant theory,and the obvious phenomenons in our daily life but cantain coherent set of rules,also maybe the access of scranbling mountain of academic.This wonderful article aggrandize my comprehension on beauty and I recognized there are mass of beauty waiting us to discover and explore,and the only thing we need to do is cultivating and alerting intelligence and our five keen senses.
I have little the same feeling as the author described during the study on academic.I have never detected such a beautiful and mysterious world through the sight of optical microscope and scanning electron microscope.That was my first time seen the structure of bacterial flagella,various figures including beautiful girls,pears and cats vividly shown under the optical aparatus,and as long as you fully exert imagination,you can find more funny profile.So does the same as the configurition of antennas of insects,which is alluring and complicated integral.These beatiful founds arouse us searching for the mystery in the universe,then the study never boring but interesting.
Holding a attitude of discovering beauty,we could reap a lot,no matter what we are doing.Sharp eyes and brimming hearts and teeming minds make our life more bewutiful.
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