I can't say I loved this--and I wanted and expected to. People whose judgement I respect adored it, and when I was a teen I devoured science books, and here are the memoirs of a Nobel-prize winning physicist who hobnobbed with Einstein and Planck and worked on the Manhattan Project! And the book is ...
During my first semester of college I didn't have a car, so I had to wait around campus for my sister to take me home. For this reason, I spent a lot of time in the library and one of the books that I found was the late Richard Feynman's autobiography. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! It was entert...
He led an awesome life. Period.Being him (or with him) was never boring, I'm sure. My teacher told me that sometimes geniuses are weirdos. I think Feynman was one of them.One of my favorite parts was when the dean Eisenhart asked his students if some of them would like to volunteer to be hypnotized....
A wonderful book. Richard P. Feynman is a scientific genius, Nobel Prize winner in physics, a genius of mischief and an owner of insatiably curious mind -- this makes for the funniest and thought provoking book at the same time. You don't have to know anything about physics to enjoy this book.
Pretty amazing man, if simply for his ability to recall all these little stories. I love that he is in love with science. His rants on "knowing" vs "understanding" really hit home.
Funny anecdotes from a vibrant, and indeed curious character. Makes me wish I knew a little more Physics, so I could share in his contagious enthusiasm for the subject. (Yeah right, like there's a Quantum Field Theory crash course somewhere that I can just take.) He was just plain giddy about scienc...
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