"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Physicist

Perception, Children, Physics, Problems

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"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago."

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