Feynmans Lebens- und Naturphilosophie

3. Selbstdarstellung und Wahrnehmung durch andere im
Verhältnis zur inneren Gefühlswelt
“That he had written such a letter to the woman he loved, two years
after her death, could never become part of the iconography of
Feynman, the collection of stories and images that was already
beginning to follow him about. [...]
The Feynman who could be wracked by strong emotion, the man stung
by shyness, insecurity, anger, worry, or grief – no one got close enough
any more to see him. His friends heard a certain kind of story instead,
in which Feynman was an adverted boy hero, mastering a
bureaucracy or a person or a situation by virtue of his naiveté, his
good humor, his brashness, his commonsense cleverness (not
brilliance), and his emperor's-new-clothes honesty. The stories were
true, at least in spirit, though like all stories they were selectively
incomplete. They were admired, polished, retold, and once in a while
even relived.”
(Gleick, “Genius”, S. 222, 1992)
Feynmans Lebens- und Naturphilosophie Fabian Schwarz, 4. Juli 2006