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by speff 478 days ago
Reminds me of this quote by Stephen Gould

> I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops

How many women or other discriminated-against people didn't have the chance to make a difference in the world because of attitudes of people like Feynman?