The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.

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Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist born in 1918 who reformulated quantum electrodynamics and invented the Feynman diagram. Won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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