“This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!”

—  Richard Feynman

Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "Is Electricity Fire?", p. 283
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

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