No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something a…

Richard P. Feynman
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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. ✨ Richard P. Feynman's letter to Koichi Mano (February 3, 1966), as quoted in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman edited by Michelle Feynman and Timothy Ferris (pp. 198, 201), April 5, 2005; also quoted in Wise Man by Freeman Dyson, www.nybooks.com. October 20, 2005.
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