“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.”

— Richard Feynman, "The Dignified Professor," in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, 1985

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1918 – 1988

American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (1965).

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