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Finding Beauty and Truth in Mundane Occurrences

18 rbanffy 2 5/13/2025, 9:37:46 AM quantamagazine.org ↗

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delichon · 31d ago

"My deep and abiding feeling is that if you look at anything closely enough, there will be new riches to be found,” Nagel said.

"Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough." -- Richard Feynman

jebarker · 31d ago

The article made me think of Feynman's classic letter to his old student too: https://fs.blog/richard-feynman-what-problems-to-solve/

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