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by practicalpants 1881 days ago
I don't think Feynman was that different in this masculine or promiscuous respect from many of that era's greats... Schrödinger, von Neumann, Einstein, to name a few.

Feynman at least writes extensively about his deceased wife.

I imagine you would not enjoy reading history too much as the 21st C Western first world attitudes on these topics are pretty unique compared to any other time.

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Dirac was purpotedly very on-point
I do enjoy reading history, and I'm not even turned off by knowing that he did and enjoyed those things. I just got tired of listening about it for what seemed like about half of the book when I was expecting a memoir of a Nobel prize winning scientist.
surely youre joking...
Those other scientists didn't coerce any of their female graduate students to pose naked so they could practice for their painting hobby.