What does love feel like?

231 answers answered between 2000 and 2026 one of 25 in The Q&A

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Arthur Ashkin Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of optical tweezers

I was very shy, but I knew that this lady was special,…So I had enough nerve to ask for her phone number.

Recorded Hilary Brueck, Business Insider interview at Ashkin's home, 26 January 2019 source ↗

Connection, warmth, somebody you can trust and, quite happily, say nothing to.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 December 2025 source ↗

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