In my quantum physics adventures, I have come across the amazing mind and quotes of American physicist Richard Feynman. I especially like this one.
"A poet once said, "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, as did Louis Pasteur,
the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, 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!"
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