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Horizon: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

A candid 1981 BBC interview where Richard Feynman reflects on curiosity, discovery, honors, scientific thinking, and the deep personal joy he finds in understanding how the world works.

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“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”
Richard Feynman

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“I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me.”
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• Title: Horizon: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

• Author: Richard P. Feynman

• Type: Interview

• Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

• Publication time: 1981

• Publication place: London, England

• Link: https://archive.org/details/ThePleasureOfFindingThingsOut_201809

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