A cracked white eggshell releases a thin stream of golden light onto dark blue fabric beside a small magnifying glass.

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Richard Feynman

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

This speaker frames existence itself as starting from total blankness, with knowledge arriving only in scattered fragments over a lifetime. There's a kind of modest wonder here, treating understanding not as a finished achievement but as small, patchy corrections made along the way, here and there, never complete.

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