![]() ![]() He was playful, idiosyncratic, independent, and had a chaotic streak in him He was a true Renaissance man - having had breakthroughs in physics and mathematics and enjoyed playing the drums, picking up women, learning languages, breaking into safes, and more.To Feynman, knowledge was not something used to explain but was pragmatic, something that helped you accomplish things.Feynman had a deep belief in nature, a skepticism of experts, and a distinct impatience for mediocrity.Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.However, this was also responsible for his intuitive leaps and orthogonal way of attacking problems Feynman was an unusually original thinker, someone with enormous horsepower who wanted to think and build from first principles - sometimes to an exaggerated degree which wasted a lot of his time and lead to many lost hours. ![]()
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