Since we recently went 'round about quoting and criticizing people who quote 
Feynman, I thought this would be interesting.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3488

> if you write, for example, that Richard Feynman was a self-aggrandizing 
> chauvinist showboater, then even if your remarks have a nonzero inner product 
> with the truth, you don’t thereby “transcend” Feynman and stand above him, in 
> the same way that set theory transcends and stands above arithmetic by 
> constructing a model for it.  Feynman’s achievements don’t thereby become 
> your achievements.


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