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

— Richard Feynman

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