But wouldn't Gell-Mann, a guy who worked with him be a better judge of that, maybe Feynman did spend a good amount of energy of generating anecdotes, noone is perfect. It's becuase of all these anecdotes that we like him, not because we understand his papers of quantum electrodynamics. So maybe Gell-Mann has a point there !
I have read many opinions of Feynman by people who knew him personally. Sometimes they contradict, so we can't just assume they are all true. In any case, people can be mistaken and we should think for ourselves. There is a lot of evidence about Feynman publicly available. Based on that evidence, including Gell-Mann's testimony, I think what I said.
I do not say this in an attempt to make Feynman perfect (in fact inability to find enough to do is a flaw).
