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“Perhaps you will not only have some appreciation of this culture; it is even possible that you may want to join in the greatest adventure that the human mind has ever begun.
— Richard Feynman
Physicist and Nobel laureate
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964), volume III, "Feynman's Epilogue", p. 21-19 (closing sentence)
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