I referenced Feynman at the bottom of my article. http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2008/03/what_are_worthwhile_problems_f.php http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2

I referenced Feynman at the bottom of my article. http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2008/03/what_are_worthwhile_problems_f.php http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2008/03/what_are_worthwhile... Perhaps I should have described another trap. It is too easy to grow up with the sense that one should work on only grand things. "The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. [...] No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it."