6.5.1 The Ideas of ScienceIt should be understood that wonder can have its source in the scientific ideas themselves. I mean abstract ideas like energy, matter, heat, and light. These abstract ideas are powerful, in the sense that they help us explain and predict a wide range of phenomena. Take matter, for example. It is an idea that is central to science. Richard Feynman, in fact, believed that perhaps the most powerful idea is the atomic hypothesis: