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And Feynman's title was a play on Daniel Webster's comment "There's plenty of room at the top" when told that he shouldn't become a lawyer because the field was too crowded.

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I wonder if the author of this article was aware of the etymology or if it's a curious case of mutating references returning to the original?

Do you have a reference for Feynman's title being a play on Webster's comment? That would be neat to have.

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