At Cornell, I was simply puzzled and mystified by [Richard] Feynman's stuff. I couldn't figure out how he was getting all those amazing answers which turned out to be right. It was just a great mystery. I didn't understand it and, as far as I could tell, nobody else did.

In: Christopher Sykes (ed.), No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman - Chapter Three (p. 73)