"He says, 'Feynman, that's pretty interesting, but what's the importance of it? Why are you doing it?'"

"'Hah!' I say. 'There's no importance whatsoever. I'm just doing it for the fun of it.' His reaction didn't discourage me; I had made up my mind I was going to enjoy physics and do whatever I liked."

https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html

It seems this article went into the second-chance pool, which is great! It didn't get much discussion last time around but might spurn a lot of interesting threads.

However, something I find a little upsetting: I commented the first time around (about 2 days ago). But currently the comments show that I commented first about 50 minutes ago. That's a little too much rewriting of history, if you ask me.

What's funny is that when I came to leave this reply, on the "Add comment" page, it correctly says that my first comment was 2 days ago. So this information IS available. So the timestamp is rewritten? @dang, seems a little too much ret-conny...

(It also makes me wonder what would happen if I visited the second-chance page before some of the other first-time comments were/are-going-to-be posted.)

Yogurt lids really rip. Not that anyone asked