Freeman Dyson - The pain of childbirth is not remembered....

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

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Author Profession: Physicist

Nationality: American

Born: December 15, 1923

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Richard P. Feynman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Michio Kaku, Martin H. Fischer, Brian Greene, Edward Teller, Lawrence M. Krauss, Barry Barish

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Child, Childbirth, Pain, Remembered

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