People
There are children playing in the street 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
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker imagines children solving problems that remain difficult for him because they perceive things differently. Expertise is placed beside something it may have lost. The suggestion values unfamiliar ways of noticing, while presenting childhood perception as a possibility rather than a demonstrated scientific result.
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