Emil Mottala - Physicist, Los Alamos
Artist
Anna Christine Hansen
Date1988
Mediumchromogenic color print
Dimensions20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1989 General Obligation Bonds
Object numberPC1990.69.40
DescriptionThis color photograph is of the physicist Emil Mottala with a written inscription and signature by Mottala underneath. Mottala is smiling and posing in front of a chalkboard.The inscription reads:
Reality is a challenge -- in more ways than one! The challenge is intellectual (to understand), practical (to survive), aesthetic (to see beauty) and ethical (to do well). As a physicist, I spend most of my time on the first challenge, but the others are just as real and important. Science certainly has its practical aspects as everything technological around us would be impossible without it. Less often appreciated is its aesthetic side: the laws of nature have to be beautiful because nature herself is! And with the power science and technology bring, moral questions are inevitable --even essential. But lets [sic] not forget the greatest challenge of all: to have fun doing it all!
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