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by akiselev 2171 days ago
One of the earliest stories of his career was breaking into people's offices at Los Alamos and picking their safes to get access to their Manhattan project reports when he was impatient and didn't want to wait for them. I think he's had a healthy does of ego right from the beginning.
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Feynman's beginning was very early. Before he joined the Manhattan Project he had already published work that appears in textbooks today.

What you call who I call a healthy disrespect for bad rules that impede people trying to get real work done.