SOURCE: “The Pig Who Abolished the Future,” in Spectator, October 31, 1992, pp. 36–37.

In the following review, Potter offers a positive assessment of Genius.

Despite the recent success of perhaps half a dozen popular science books which might be said to fulfil the expectations of C. P. Snow's projected ‘Third Culture,’ it is probable that most readers even of The Spectator will have only the haziest notion of who Richard Feynman (pronounced Fineman) was. And yet he was undoubtedly one of the greatest physicists (or is it mathematicians?—modern physics is so theoretical it is hard to distinguish between the two) of the second half of the 20th century and, excepting Einstein, certainly a match for the rich trove of physicists of the first half: Heisenberg, Dirac, Pauli, Bohr et al. But what immediately separates the genius of Feynman from that of his peers is his obvious lack of cultural...