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To: Bruce Tiemann who wrote (12007)	9/19/1999 5:44:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

I don't disagree about Feynman being one of the great minds of the century. He's also one of my "heroes", and Einstein isn't. But Al was a better physicist. I was just quibbling with some else's contention that Feynman was greater than Einstein. I have a funny story. I went to high school on Long Island, and one day my best friend at the time got into an argument with his mother about something. She finally said to him, "You think you're so smart. You remind me of this guy that I knew in high school whose name was Richie Feynman. He thought he was so damned smart, too!" My friend replied, "Ma, he was right." She didn't pay any attention to the world of science, so she had no idea what had happened to Richie since high school...