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But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard P. Feynman
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Richard P. Feynman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1918
Born: May 11
Died: 1988
Died: February 15
Inventor
Percussionist
Physicist
Politician
Quantum Physicist
Science Communicator
Theoretical Physicist
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Far Rockaway
New York
Richard Phillips Feynman
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