His protests provoked the response, 'Shut up, Richard!
pts: Once, when another research group presented a talk on a type of Feynman diagram named after an odd type of bird, Feynman protested that the diagram looked nothing like its fowlish namesake. His protests provoked the response, 'Shut up, Richard! Feynman diagrams don't look anything like you!' What non-flying avian's honor was Feynman defending?
pts: Once, when another research group presented a talk on a type of Feynman diagram named after an odd type of bird, Feynman protested that the diagram looked nothing like its fowlish namesake.
{penguin} (The researchers had lost a bet, so they had to use the word penguin in their research. They chose to name the type of Feynman diagrams Penguin diagrams.)