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Victor Weisskopf - The privilege of being a physicist (1989)

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Knowledge has to be sucked into the brain, not pushed into it.

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Deeper insights into the nature of things are best achieved with distance from daily experience.

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Science is an important part of the humanities because it is based on an essential human trait: curiosity about how and why of our environment. We must foster wonder, joy of insight.

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Science is curiosity, discovering things and asking why.

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Born: September 19, 1908
Died: April 22, 2002 (aged 93)
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