Richard P. Feynman

The Messenger Lectures have taken place annually at Cornell since 1924, when H.J.Messenger, a graduate and professor of mathematics, gave a sum of money to encourage eminent personalities from anywhere in the world to visit Cornell and talk to the students. In establishing the fund for the lectures Messenger specified that it is "to provide a course on the evolution of civilization for the special purpose of rising the moral standard of our political, business and social life".
In November 1964 Richard P. Feynman, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists, laureate of Nobel prize, and distinguished educator, was invited to the lectures.

This is an excerpt from his lectures taken from "The Character of Physical Laws" by Richard P. Feynman, MIT Press, 1967:
...To summarize, I would use the words of Jeans, who said that "the Great Architect seems to be a mathematician". To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. C.P. Snow talked about two cultures. I really think that those two cultures separate people who have and people who have not had this experience of understanding mathematics well enough to appreciate nature once.
It is too bad that it has to be mathematics, and that mathematics is hard for some people. It is reputed - I do not know if it is true - that when one of the kings was trying to learn geometry from Euclid he complained that it was difficult. And Euclid said, "There is no royal road to geometry". And there is no royal road. Physicists cannot make a conversion to any other language. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. She offers her information only in one form; we are not so unhumble as to demand that she change before we pay any attention.
All the intellectual arguments that you can make will not communicate to deaf ears what the experience of music really is. In the same way all the intellectual arguments in the world will not convey and understanding of nature to those of "the other culture". Philosophers may try to teach you by telling you qualitatively about nature. I am trying to describe her. But it is not getting across because it is impossible. Perhaps it is because their horizons are limited in the way that some people are able to imagine that the center of the universe is man...