A back-of-the-mind thought I've had since high school is that some of our scientific ideas feel like they have more than a passing similarity to the ideas of antiquity. Not in the literal sense, but in their motivation. E.g. electrons "try" to occupy the lowest energy state, or objects fall to the lowest energy state under gravity, or a moving electric charge generates a magnetic field because that's just what moving charges do... it all feels, in a very deep sense, descriptive rather than truly explanatory.
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