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396 JEE-JEE-JEE-JU-JU. JEE-JEE-JEE-JU-JU: F-L.

396 IT TOOK YEARS FOR FEYNMAN’S CHILDREN: Michelle Feynman, Carl Feynman, Gweneth Feynman, interviews.

397 RICHARD, I’M COLD: Leighton, interview.

397 I COULD HAVE KILLED HIM: Feynman to Sheila Sorenson, 21 October 1974, CIT. 397 TRUMPET PLAYING—SOCIAL WORKER—ZYGOPHALATELIST: Feynman to Carl Feynman, 18 February 1980, PERS.

397 AFTER MUCH EFFORT AT UNDERSTANDING: Ibid.

398 WHAT MAKES IT MOVE: Feynman 1966a.

398 TO TELL A FIRST-GRADER: Ibid., 14.

398 YOU SAY, “WITHOUT USING": Ibid., 15.

398 SHOE LEATHER WEARS OUT: Ibid., 16.

398 FEYNMAN TAUGHT THIRTY-FOUR: D. Goodstein 1989, 73.

399 I COULDN’T REDUCE IT: Ibid. 75.

399 IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE USE OF WORDS: Feynman 1964a, 16.

400 I DOUBT THAT ANY CHILD: Ibid., 3.

401 MICHELLE LEARNED THAT HE HAD A THOUSAND: Michelle Feynman, interview.

401 OH YES, WE DO: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

401 TRAVELING IN THE SWISS ALPS: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

402 FEYNMAN’S TUMOR: C. M. Haskell, interview, Los Angeles.

402 FIVE-YEAR SURVIVAL RATES: Sheldon C. Binder, Bertram Katz, and Barry Sheridan, “Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma,” Annals of Surgery, March 1978, 260.

402 YOU ARE OLD, FATHER FEYNMAN: “Father Feynman,” n.d., CIT.

402 WITH A POSTDOCTORAL STUDENT: Feynman et al. 1977; Field and Feynman 1977; Field and Feynman 1978.

403 FEYNMAN DID NOT REALIZE THAT FIELD: Richard Field, telephone interview.

403 I DON’T GET ANY PHYSICS: Victor F. Weisskopf to Feynman, 23 March 1979, CIT.

403 QCD FIELD THEORY WITH SIX FLAVORS: “Qualitative Behavior,” typescript for Feynman 1981, CIT.

404 VASCULAR INCIDENT: In Chang Kim, interview, Pasadena.

404 FEYNMAN NEEDED SEVENTY-EIGHT PINTS: Haskell, interview. Gweneth Feynman, interview.

404 IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TALK: Cvitanović, interview.

404 MY WIFE: Douglas R. Hofstadter, telephone interview.

405 I HAVE NOT ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING: Feynman to Robert B. Leighton, 10 June 1974, CIT.

405 WHAT THE HELL IS FEYNMAN INVITED FOR: Feynman to Sidney Coleman, 13 August 1976, CIT.

405 ANOTHER PIECE OF EVIDENCE: Coleman to Feynman, 26 July 1976, CIT.

405 AGGRESSIVE DOPINESS: Carl Feynman, interview.

406 HE LISTENED PATIENTLY AS BABA RAM DAS: SYJ, 303–5.

406 PEOPLE IN HIGHER ECHELONS: He titled the talk, “Los Alamos from Below.” Feynman 1975, 105.

406 STILL, HE WOULD EMERGE: SYJ, 306.

406 SPORADICALLY, HE WORKED: E.g., Jon N. Leonard to Feynman, 3 November 1987, and Peter H. Hambling to Feynman, 4 August 1987, CIT.

407 ARE WE PHYSICS GIANTS: Feynman to Philip Morrison, 23 May 1972, CIT. 407 MYSTICISM, EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS: SYJ, 309.

407 IT HAS TO DO WITH THE QUESTION: Videotape, courtesy of Ralph Leighton.

407 PEACE OF MIND AND ENJOYMENT: Quoted in Leighton 1991, 83–84.

408 IT SEEMED TO GWENETH: Gweneth Feynman, interview; William G. Bradley, interview.

408 BUT YOU CAN’T SEE: Feynman to William G. Bradley, 13 July 1984, CIT.

409 OKAY, START YOUR WATCH: Weiner, interview.

409 A RECORD OF THE DAY-TO-DAY WORK: F-W, II-4.

410 TODAY I WENT OVER TO THE HUNTINGTON: F-L.

410 AND THE NEXT MORNING, ALL RIGHT: Ibid.

411 “LISTEN,” I SAID TO THE DISPATCHER: SYJ, 236.

411 A NICE BROOKLYN RING: Edwin Barber to Feynman, 2 March 1984, CIT.

411 GELL-MANN’S RAGE COULD BE HEARD: E.g., Tuck, interview.

411 OF COURSE IT WASN’T TRUE: SYJ, 229. He also changed “Murray Gell-Mann and I wrote a paper on the theory” to “Murray Gell-Mann compared and combined our ideas and wrote a paper on the theory” (232). Gell-Mann still called it “that joke book.” He knew that Feynman had not deliberately tried to take undeserved credit, but he was hurt nonetheless. “He was not at all a thief of ideas—even very generous in some ways,” Gell-Mann said. “It’s just that he was not always capable of regarding other people as really existing.”

411 A NIFTY BLONDE: SYJ, 241 and 168.

412 OUT WITH HIS GIRL FRIEND: Lectures, I-3–7.

412 DEAR ROTHSTEIN: DON’T BUG ME: “Protest,” mimeograph sheet, CIT.

412 HE HAD SPENT MANY PLEASANT HOURS: