Of course he had lots of flaws. But he does deserve a pedestal, actually. (All those folks on pedestals have flaws; some of them don't deserve their pedestal

Of course he had lots of flaws. But he does deserve a pedestal, actually. (All those folks on pedestals have flaws; some of them don't deserve their pedestal at all; Feynmann does.) Also, I don't think he was a very "normal person". Being that brilliant tends to make you not very normal -- although he could impersonate a particularly sharp "normal person" if it seemed advantageous. Read some anecdotes about his career and life -- for instance, the time he had a concussion and acted weird for about three weeks before anyone thought something was really the matter. That's not a "normal person". It seems to me that you're letting your desire to not idolize him, get in the way of recognizing the reality of his genius and what he accomplished. That's not fair to reality.