Probably the same thing.
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Fear and all of its consequences.
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When people are rude to their waiter.
Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist.
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Probably when I didn’t sleep for a week on drugs in 2009. I’d had a lot of meth and my heart felt like it was giving out. I remember climbing over balconies really high up, and I thought I was going to die, until I eventually fell asleep in someone’s garden.
The last time I held my children and every time before that. They’ve been my salvation.
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