Richard Feynman - The Universe in a Glass of Wine

Again, something unoriginal, but it really blew my mind when I heard it. This is a special lecture Richard Feynman gave to some graduates at Caltech where he taught. The audio recording, and a pretty ballin' picture of Feynman can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ck3rO_m3A&NR=1

If you're in an awkward location where you can't listen to it, here's the text which I typed out myself:

A poet I think it is once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." I don't know, and I don't know if we'll ever know in what sense he meant that, for the poets don't write to be understood. But it is true that if you look in glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of the stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it!
And if in our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and all - remember that nature does not know it! So we should put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

Enjoy, and read this one last quote of Feynman's,

Physics is like sex; sure, you can get some interesting results, but that's not why we do it.