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> You fault him for not knowing "there's no sex in the Champaign room"

No, I fault him for being an entitled asshole.

> I recommend that you don't look into the sex lives of famous and admirable thinkers through out history.

The greater the man, the greater the shadow. That is why I am reluctant to admire _any_ great person. You are absolutely right that the more you dig, the more you learn how flawed everyone is. My problem is that there is an uncritical deification of Feynman that seeks to whitewash the aspects of his personality that were far less than admirable.

> We take pleasure in out-smarting the our so-called superiors.

And thus mirror exactly the behavior that you don't like about them.

To me, Feynman epitomizes smart but not wise. I cannot hold a candle to him when it comes to understanding the physical laws of nature, but almost nothing I have ever heard from him actually helps me a better human, which is not true of some other great thinkers. YMMV of course.