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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 ↗
Ada Yonath Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009
people in power tend to take advantage of that power and this can be both men and women.
Recorded Ardhra Nair, Vishwakarma University, Pune, The Times of India, 1 March 2019 source ↗

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