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More on Feynman Vs. Gell-Mann: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578345 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578345
by TriinT 17y ago
More on Feynman Vs. Gell-Mann:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578345 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578345
- dutchkabuki 17y agoclassic quote from the article above: For all his accomplishments, Gell-Mann couldn't be happy until he had written a best seller like Feynman's. Adding to his melancholy, "Surely, You're Joking" was followed in 1988 by Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, which sold more than nine million copies. To Gell-Mann's colleagues, a book of light-hearted anecdotes told by their intense and pedantic friend seemed a dubious prospect. It would have to be called, one of them said, "Dammit, Murray, You're Right Again!" Others remarked that Gell-Mann, unlike Hawking, didn't have the advantage of being confined to a wheelchair.