“The most important thing I found out from [my father] is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.”

— Richard Feynman

Source: No Ordinary Genius (1994), p. 28

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American theoretical physicist 1918–1988

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