“I don’t understand what the Nobel Prize is all about.
I don’t like honors.
I’ve already got the prize - the pleasure of finding the thing out.” [Richard Feynman]
Every year, the Nobel Prize crowns a few names.
But the real prize — the one that never fades - belongs to every scientist who stays up at 3 AM chasing an idea no one else believes in.
Whether or not they ever touch that gold medal, they’ve already won something bigger: the joy of discovery.
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