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From: Lawrence Krauss .5 To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Cc: LAwrence Krauss .5 Subject: Fwd: My Richard Feynman Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 01:49:53 +0000 here is one I found right away by typing in a few keywords into my mail search engine...but I get letters and testimonials like this every week.. btw.. I value people's privacy greatly, and don't forward emails lightly, so if you weren't joking and really did want to contact this person or others, I would need to ask their permission... ok? Lawrence my student asked what I was talking about next door, and he has written something in response... I will send it to you too. Begin forwarded message: From: Nicole Taylor Subject: My Richard Feynman Date: April 9, 2013 11:11:14AM MST To: " Mr. Krauss, I recently watched the video of The Great Debate and I must say I love this type of discussion. A whole lot of brilliance all on one stage answering questions from people just like me. I was truly inspired by this discussion and I must say it was because of you. I found your story of Richard Feynman so touching. I was heartbroken when you explained how you wanted the chance to tell Richard Feynman how much he inspired you to become who you are today, that I didn't want to miss the chance and tell you that you have done the same for me. You, Mr. Krauss are my Richard Feynman. You see Mr. Krauss, I've been a bit of a wanderer. Always the black sheep, kept to myself in school, and a bit different than most. I never knew what I wanted to do while I was growing up, so I bounced around from job to job. I worked with autistic children, became a tire technician, worked at Jiffy Lube, became a bartender and now a bookkeeper. My sister on the other hand wanted to be a nurse the day she was born, and now she is a nurse. I envy that I never had that gut instinct to tell me what I should be doing. I often struggled with religion and my parents beliefs. I often tried to become religious, but my logic wouldn't allow it. Only distancing myself from my family and well, most people really. I think the thing that hit me the hardest was when my father said he didn't believe in evolution. I realized what damage and effect religion has on people. I started reading the bible because my father asked me too, he said that I could not judge religion because I have not read the bible. So I told him I would, I quite honestly am having a hard time getting through it because I can't make it past the blatant disregard for women. I never knew the importance of women in our society. I once read a quote that said, "Educate a man and you educate and individual; educate a woman and you educate a family." I thought about how beautiful the bond between a mother and child is. EFTA00968061 The knowledge she gives them on a day to day basis is so powerful. When I first learned about you it was actually from during my Neil DeGrasse Tyson obsession. Your name started popping up everywhere. I watched Richard Dawkins on Q and A in a battle with Cardinal George Pell, I was just baffled by the constant debate with religion and science and your name was brought up. Then I watched you on Q and A and was floored. That was one of my all time favorite debates, hands down. Then it hit me. I want to be a scientist. I want to learn about anything and everything, not what was indoctrinated to me when I was young. My thirst for knowledge is unavoidable, I have been dehydrated my whole life and my brain can't stop looking for more knowledge. Although my math skills are not up to par, I took comfort in a section of The Great Debate on how math should not be the one thing stopping me from pursuing science. It gives me hope to push through and work hard and dedicate my life to the power of knowledge. I don't know what kind of scientist just yet, but that is the beauty of science for me, the door is wide open. I want to thank you from the bottom of my atoms for truly inspiring me. I want to thank you for instilling passion and ambition back into my life. Thank you for letting me know that it's OK to not believe in a God and it's OK to want to learn more, and most of all that it's OK to stand apart from everyone else and be comfortable with who I am and what I believe. Thank you for making science exciting to learn about. You have a real talent for teaching and explaining things that make me have my Aha moments!! I'm already on my path to science and it's all because of you. I'm currently enrolled in the university here in Anchorage, Alaska to study Natural Science with focus on Environmental Science. I'll tackle Physics on my own time when my fluency in math is much clearer. I felt like Natural Science was a good route to take because it could lead me in so many directions. I want you to know that what you are doing, standing up for education, standing up for women in science, and standing up for science is really having an impact. The world would be a different place if everyone had their own Richard Feynman and Lawrence Krauss. Thank you for your time. Nicole Taylor future scientist. M. I am originally from Tucson, Arizona and will be moving back to Arizona in the future and ASU has one big main attraction for me and I hope that you are still there when I enroll! I hope to someday be able to see you live in action and shake your hand and thank you in person. I also cannot wait to see the Unbelievers!! Lawrence M. Krauss Foundation Professor Director, The ASU Origins Project Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Assoc. Dir, Beyond Center ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Liberal Arts and Sciences School of Earth and Space Exploration EFTA00968062