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To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
Richard P. Feynman
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Richard P. Feynman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1918
Born: May 11
Died: 1988
Died: February 15
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Physicist
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Quantum Physicist
Science Communicator
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Far Rockaway
New York
Richard Phillips Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
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