

“Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough!”
Note to the mother of Marcus Chown
photo of note published in No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (1996), p. 161
Traced to Note to the mother of Marcus Chown.
More from Richard Feynman
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Rogers Commission Report · 1986
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out · 1979
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This Is My Story · 1937
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Strength to Love · 1963
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