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I feel that very rarely have I done any work in my life. I have a good time. I'm exploring. I'm playing a game, solving puzzles, and having fun, and for some reason people have been willing to pay me for it. Officially, I was supposed to retire years ago, but retire from what? Why stop having a good time?

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It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?

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The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'

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Charles Hard Townes

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Born: July 28, 1915
Died: January 27, 2015 (aged 99)
Bio: Charles Hard Townes was an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor.

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