We pick up your gaubij.

When he spoke, Richard Feynman sounded a lot like this guy. Now, I derive actual physical pleasure from listening to any Jew-twang - let alone one attached to as many good ideas as this guy. Imagine my joy, then, when reading The Character of Physical Law, imagining him whispering it to me while he cradled my head and called me 'tiny dancer'. Etc etc.

Weird.

Feynman was the consummate scientific everyman. He helped develop the atomic bomb. He went to strip clubs. He balled-out the US Government for lying during the Challenger fuckup/inquiry. He drank like a Greek sailor. He was a pioneer in nanotech. He painted abstracts. He was a Nobel Laureate. He was a faithful husband.

He was, I think, a study in contrasts. Or, to put it another way, he lived the kind of double-life that made him and his ideas accessible. Science needs more of this.