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I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.


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[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.



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Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.



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At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on.





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