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What is the trait you most deplore in others?

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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.
Recorded Caltech commencement address, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1974 source ↗

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