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“Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough!”

— Richard Feynman

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Wikiquote: Richard Feynman
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Context

Note to the mother of Marcus Chown, who had admired the profile of Feynman presented in the BBC TV Horizon program "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981). Written after Chown asked Feynman to write her a birthday note, hoping it would increase her interest in science.

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

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