Quote for Gell-Mann in the article: "Feynman was pretty good, although not as good as he thought he was. He was too self-absorbed and spent a huge amount of ene

Quote for Gell-Mann in the article: "Feynman was pretty good, although not as good as he thought he was. He was too self-absorbed and spent a huge amount of energy generating anecdotes about himself." If you're interested, the best book of Feynman anecdotes is Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!, which I was given as a present upon graduating 8th grade and going to high school. I appreciate Gell-Mann's criticism of Feynman, but I did value Feynman's book of anecdotes a tremendous deal. It was important for me to learn that you could be smart and charismatic, nerdy and worldly at the same time.