Feynman’s point aligns with how science progresses: a stubborn refusal to stop at the first answer. Asking “why” repeatedly turns the ordinary into the profound—why metals conduct, why mirrors reflect, why the sky is blue—until you reach deeper principles or discover what you don’t yet understand.
Feynman’s own work in quantum electrodynamics exemplified this patience with complexity; the technical details were not distractions but the very terrain where insight lived. As a result, the quote can be read as a defense of method: careful inquiry doesn’t just yield knowledge, it manufactures wonder. [...]
