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I believe that Feynman created anecdotes primarily because he was bored (not because of an ego), and he didn't spend tremendous effort on them (as Gell-Mann say
by xenophanes 17y ago
I believe that Feynman created anecdotes primarily because he was bored (not because of an ego), and he didn't spend tremendous effort on them (as Gell-Mann says) but rather he spent some effort on them and still had energy left over: he needed more to do, not less.
- vinutheraj 17y agoBut wouldn't Gell-Mann, a guy who worked with him be a better judge of that, maybe Feynman did spend a good amount of energy of generating anecdotes, noone is perfect. It's becuase of all these anecdotes that we like him, not because we understand his papers of quantum electrodynamics. So maybe Gell-Mann has a point there !
- xenophanes 17y agoI have read many opinions of Feynman by people who knew him personally. Sometimes they contradict, so we can't just assume they are all true. In any case, people can be mistaken and we should think for ourselves. There is a lot of evidence about Feynman publicly available. Based on that evidence, including Gell-Mann's testimony, I think what I said. I do not say this in an attempt to make Feynman perfect (in fact inability to find enough to do is a flaw).