The Character of Physical Law: Feynman's Classic on Scientific Laws (Audio)
In this popular classic, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not 'how clever we are to have found it out, but how clever...
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In this popular classic, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not 'how clever we are to have found it out, but how clever nature is to pay attention to it.' After establishing what is most remarkable in nature, Professor Feynman develops his own analysis of the process and future of scientific discovery. This audiobook has special value as a demonstration of the mind in action, in this case, one of the most pre-eminent and imaginative minds of modern physics. Feynman's enlightened approach, his wit, and his enthusiasm make this a memorable exposition of the scientist's craft.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781879557437 (1879557436)
Publish date: October 1st 1999
Publisher: Audio Scholar
Minutes: 171
Edition language: English
As I progressed through this excellent little book, I began to feel that the style was somehow familiar from another genre. Mozart? Perhaps e.e. cummings? But my subconscious, while granting that I wasn't totally off-base, informed me that it had a chess analogy in mind. I had never thought about it...
This is a fantastic little book for which we have to thank the BBC: They decided to film these lectures and subsequently publish transcripts of them, at a time before Feynman had turned into a one-man industry and every one of Feynman`s students`first-draft lecture notes became as diamond dust.The t...
This is a fantastic little book for which we have to thank the BBC: They decided to film these lectures and subsequently publish transcripts of them, at a time before Feynman had turned into a one-man industry and every one of Feynman`s students`first-draft lecture notes became as diamond dust.The t...