It had to do with curiosity.
It has to do with people wondering what makes
something do something, and then to discover
that if you try to get answers that they're
related to each other.
That the things that make the wind make the
waves, and the motion of water is like the
motion of air and it's like the motion of
sand.
The fact that things have common features
turns out more and more universal.
What we're looking for is how everything works
and what makes everything work.
And what happens first in the history is we
discover the things that are on the face that
are obvious.
And then gradually we ask more questions and
then we dig in a little deeper to things that...
We need to do a little more complicated experiment
to find out about it.
But it's curiosity as to where we are? What
we are?
It's very much more exciting to discover we're
on a ball, half of us sticking upside down.
It's spinning around in space, there's a mysterious
force which holds us on, it's going around
a great big glob of gas that's burning fueled
by a fire that's completely different than
any fire we can make,
well, now we can make that fire, nuclear fire,
but that's much more exciting story to many
people then the tales which other people used
to make up, who worried about the universe,
that we were living on the back of a turtle
or something like that.
They were wonderful stories but the truth
is so much more remarkable.
And so what's the pleasure in physics, to
me, is that as it's revealed, the truth is
so remarkable, so amazing.
And I have this disease, and many other people
who have studied far enough to begin to understand
a little of how things work are fascinated
by it, and this fascination drives them on
to such an extent, that they've been able
to convince governments, and so on, to keep
supporting them in this investigation that
the race is making into its own environment
