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"Dick's method is this. You write down the problem. You think very hard. Then you write down the answer."

— Murray Gell-Mann

Dicks Method Is This You Write

Dick's method is this. You write down the problem. You think very hard. Then you write down the answer.

— Murray Gell-Mann
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Murray Gell-Mann made this remark about Richard Feynman, with whom he shared offices at Caltech for many years. The quote appears in James Gleick's biography Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992). Gell-Mann and Feynman had a famously complex relationship — mutual respect mixed with rivalry and occasional friction — and Gell-Mann's description captures both his admiration for Feynman's intuitive power and a hint of bemused exasperation.

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Quoted in Genius by James Gleick, 1992

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