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“Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.”

— Richard Feynman

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Wikiquote: Richard Feynman
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Context

statement (c. 1965), quoted in "An irreverent best-seller by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gives nerds a good name", People Magazine (22 July 1985)

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Feynman, Richard. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Richard Feynman. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

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