Quote #98

Murray Gell-Mann angered [Feynman's] family at a memorial service by asserting 'He surrounded himself with a cloud of myth, and he spent a great deal of time and energy generating anecdotes about himself.' These were stories, Gell-Mann added, 'in which he had to come out, if possible, looking smarter than anyone else.'

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