“a philosophy of bank shots”

I really enjoy the phrase “a physics of bank shots” as applied to Oppenheimer. I haven’t read any of his original physics papers, but I can sort of imagine what is meant.

I’ll need to think over what “a philosophy of bank shots” would be… Actually, I can think of a few good living examples (one especially, aging but still alive), but they might take it the wrong way if word got back to them that I said so. So it would be better to come up with a dead semi-classic figure as a good analogy: the Oppenheimer of philosophy, so to speak.