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July 4, 2010
Richard Feynman on the Nobel Prize and Honors:
"The whole thing was rotten."
Posted by Vanderleun at July 4, 2010 10:25 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Well, it does entitle you to a special massage. Or at least that's what Gore thought.
Posted by: Gagdad Bob at July 5, 2010 7:00 AM
That's a man's man.
Posted by: Jewel at July 5, 2010 9:31 AM
I believe he is saying the Nobel committee exists to honor itself. Fortunately the result makes that increasingly hard to do.
Feynmen's greatest tools were his independence of mind, and a humor born of his limitations. In a field dominated by geniuses, his IO was 125. He said that his success was found in bringing a different toolbox to work. Intelligence is no bar to conformity.
Posted by: james wilson at July 5, 2010 11:07 AM