Richard Feynman: Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?
00:00:00.000 | People say to me, "Are you looking for the ultimate
00:00:02.400 | "laws of physics?"
00:00:03.900 | No, I'm not.
00:00:05.880 | I'm just looking to find out more about the world.
00:00:07.960 | And if it turns out there is a simple ultimate law
00:00:10.080 | that explains everything, so be it.
00:00:12.040 | That would be very nice to discover.
00:00:13.520 | If it turns out it's like an onion with millions of layers
00:00:16.320 | and we're just sick and tired of looking at the layers,
00:00:18.220 | then that's the way it is.
00:00:19.580 | But whatever way it comes out, its nature is there
00:00:22.380 | and she's going to come out the way she is.
00:00:25.280 | And therefore, when we go to investigate it,
00:00:27.320 | we shouldn't pre-decide what it is we're trying to do
00:00:29.760 | except to find out more about it.
00:00:32.440 | If you say, "But your problem is why do you find out
00:00:34.840 | "more about it?"
00:00:35.680 | If you thought that you were trying to find out more
00:00:37.200 | about it because you're going to get an answer
00:00:38.960 | to some deep philosophical question, you may be wrong.
00:00:42.520 | It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular
00:00:45.040 | question by finding out more about the character of nature.
00:00:48.680 | But I don't look at it.
00:00:49.640 | My interest in science is to simply find out
00:00:53.000 | about the world.
00:00:53.920 | And the more I find out, the better it is.