You've made similar remarks in a number of places in this series of interviews. You have a point, but I think there's something tragic here. My impression is that Gell-Mann was just as "smart" as Feynman, arguably smarter, in a conventional sense that he was more erudite, more articulate, better-read in the technical literature, and possessed at least equal mastery over what was known in physics. He just couldn't match the soaring and ever-fertile imagination of Feynman. Deep down he probably knew this; perhaps this was his cross to bear. The same was probably true of Oppenheimer: just the quickest, smartest, most knowledgeable person you could find anywhere on earth, but he didn't have that special spark of true genius.
@@toddtrimble2555 From a perspective of contribution to physics, Gell-Mann contributed just as much to physics as Feynman did if not more. One of his not so popular contributions is the discovery of the renormalization group as he says in this video. It is usually credited to Kogut and Wilson but it was actually Gell-Mann who first came up with it.
@@batuhankaynakacar834 I think you make a very good point; thanks. And perhaps I either overstated or didn't state what I meant accurately enough. There is no disputing Gell-Mann's technical prowess. But I would say that he probably didn't have the quality of mind that could invent Feynman diagrams, or produce the Feynman Lectures on Physics -- a mind always in search of a brilliant simplicity and clarity that could really capture and revolutionize people's imagining and thinking about physics. I guess I'll leave it at that.
Gell-Mann: "My ego couldn't stand being in the shadow of Feynman's ego... I mean I got fed up with Feynman's ego"
After watching a series of these videos, one gets the impression that Murray Gell-Mann's primary avocation was disparaging other physicists.
It is easy to see how the brilliant Feynman could wear on a person.
he was mischievous ... if you read his QED book or listen to him talk you would get the same impression
Yeah, Dick clearly hand't realized he was super yet... that takes time...
Xwilliam Byrd
Jealousy disguised in a spiteful and disapproving remark. These videos have created an awful legacy for Gell-Mann.
You've made similar remarks in a number of places in this series of interviews. You have a point, but I think there's something tragic here. My impression is that Gell-Mann was just as "smart" as Feynman, arguably smarter, in a conventional sense that he was more erudite, more articulate, better-read in the technical literature, and possessed at least equal mastery over what was known in physics. He just couldn't match the soaring and ever-fertile imagination of Feynman. Deep down he probably knew this; perhaps this was his cross to bear. The same was probably true of Oppenheimer: just the quickest, smartest, most knowledgeable person you could find anywhere on earth, but he didn't have that special spark of true genius.
@@toddtrimble2555 From a perspective of contribution to physics, Gell-Mann contributed just as much to physics as Feynman did if not more. One of his not so popular contributions is the discovery of the renormalization group as he says in this video. It is usually credited to Kogut and Wilson but it was actually Gell-Mann who first came up with it.
@@batuhankaynakacar834 I think you make a very good point; thanks. And perhaps I either overstated or didn't state what I meant accurately enough. There is no disputing Gell-Mann's technical prowess. But I would say that he probably didn't have the quality of mind that could invent Feynman diagrams, or produce the Feynman Lectures on Physics -- a mind always in search of a brilliant simplicity and clarity that could really capture and revolutionize people's imagining and thinking about physics. I guess I'll leave it at that.