Notes from this book.
Mother Nature is trying to kill you Dan Riskin – Great
oxygenation event – 2.4 billion years ago – photosynthesis was a neat trick
that created a poison
K-Pg 65 million ya – meteor
P-Tr 251 mya – volcano in Siberia
Richard Feynman – I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.
At the same time, I see much more . . . I could imagine the cells in there, the
complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just
beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also a beauty at smaller
dimensions, the inner structure, also the process. The fact that the colors in
the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting;
it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: Does this
aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds
of interesting questions [by] which the science knowledge only adds to the
excitement, the mystery, and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t
understand how it subtracts.
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