QuoteQuest“There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”
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- Wikiquote: Richard Feynman
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
from a 1987 class, as quoted in David L. Goodstein, "Richard P. Feynman, Teacher," Physics Today, volume 42, number 2 (February 1989) p. 70-75, at p. 73
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Feynman, Richard. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Richard Feynman. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
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