“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning.”

— Richard Feynman, Galileo Symposium lecture, 1964, in The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, 1999

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1918 – 1988

American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (1965).

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