"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love"
gguncth•15h ago
Important context is that he cheated on this woman with every warm body he could find
hshdhdhehd•15h ago
4th law of thermodynamics?
yawpitch•14h ago
Important context is that this was his first wife, his childhood sweetheart who was already terminally ill with tuberculosis when they married. He was also working on the Manhattan Project at the time; while there were, no doubt, warm bodies around, some of them radioactive, this wasn’t either of his later two marriages.
xyzzy123•14h ago
Hi, do you have a reference for this? I think you may have misunderstood the timeline.
GuinansEyebrows•15h ago
I wonder how many husbands and wives wrote letters like this in August of 1945.
abpavel•14h ago
He was brilliant in physics, not physical relationships. He married his fourth wife because he had a dream with a pool table where he couldn't score a ball for goodness' sake.
bitwize•13h ago
He just had difficulty finding a woman who met the standard set by Arline Feynman.
selcuka•8h ago
It doesn't make the story any less interesting, but she was just a girl he dated. He didn't marry her. Also he married three times, not four.
pols45•15h ago