The Art and the Life57
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars—mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination—stuck on this carousel, my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light, a vast pattern of which I am a part. What is the pattern, or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. 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?
—Richard Feynman
It’s not about photography. It’s not about art. It’s about living the life. Then again, they are one and the same. The purpose for one is the ...
Get More Than a Rock now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
