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Gell-Mann probably had his tongue at least a little bit in his cheek when he said that: the two had a competitive relationship. I always took it as a dig at th
by gnfargbl 5y ago
Gell-Mann probably had his tongue at least a little bit in his cheek when he said that: the two had a competitive relationship.
I always took it as a dig at the way Feynman liked to make out that ideas just came naturally to him, when in fact (as Murray would have known) Feynman had to put the work in the same as everyone else, even if he was a genius.
- v-erne 5y agoI met some really hard working people that literally had no good ideas - only poor clones of the most obvious solutions. So for me, event if it took him some work, he was far above most of others. And I like to read the quote about Feynman method as a remainder of the obvious: we do not control our creativity - there is no structure to it that can be thought or sold (contrary to what some self help book writers would like us to believe). There is only chaotic exploration and time, and for some it bears fruit and for others it only makes them go round in circles.