“Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.”

—  Richard Feynman, book The Meaning of It All

lecture I: "The Uncertainty of Science"
The Meaning of It All (1999)

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