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All'indomani del disastro dello Space Shuttle Challenger, nel 1986, il presidente degli Stati Uniti istituì una commissione governativa incaricata di far luce sulle cause della tragica esplosione. A farne parte fu chiamato anche Richard Feynman, e furono in molti a chiedersi quale apporto potesse dare, fra ingegneri, astronauti e tecnici aerospaziali, un sia pur celebre fi...more
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Jun 02, 2016Darwin8u rated it really liked it · review of another edition
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
― Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'
― Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
It is hard to not love Feynman. You can love his as a scientist, as a man, as a genius, as a teacher, as an iconoclast. He is the real deal. 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out' is a series of 13 speeches, articles, essays, interviews by or wi...more
Jan 08, 2009Chris rated it liked it · review of another edition
Here's the problem with having high expectations: they're so often dashed.
In my years trawling the web and being a science nerd, I've heard a lot about Richard Feynman. There are legends about him, that he was the Puck of physics - brilliant, untamed, and really, really funny. When I got the book, I was expecting to read a lightning-quick volley of ideas that would set my mind alight with the wonder and infinite possibilities continued within a lifetime's pursuit of science.
Yeah, that didn't qui...more
Apr 19, 2012Andrew Martin rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Whatever your opinion of Feynman, you need to reconcile the fact that he's got unbearably retrograde opinions:
'When I was at Cornell, I was rather fascinated by the student body, which seems to me was a dilute mixture of some sensible people in a big mass of dumb people studying home economics, etc, including lots of girls. I used to sit in the cafeteria with the students and eat and try to overhear their conversations and see if there was one intelligent word coming out. You can imagine my surp...more
Mar 15, 2011Hadrian rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: essays, biography-memoir, nonfiction, philosophy, science
A collection of truly fun essays about all sorts of things. It's almost a kind of pick-me-up for the scientifically minded.
Some of the best essays are the ones concerning nanotechnology, 'What is Science?', and the discussion on religion - particularly interesting given the resurgence of non-belief in recent years.
Not much new if you're already a devotee of Feynman, but I'd be happy to give my copy to someone new to him.
Sep 22, 2013Jim Fonseca rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Feynman is brilliant, arrogant and emotionally cold. He was the youngest brilliant mind working on the atomic bomb in Los Alamos in the 1940's and later won the Nobel Prize in physics. This book is an unintegrated collection of essays, transcripts of speeches, interviews and memoirs. As such it gets repetitive. We hear three or four times about how his father taught him to observe and we hear three or four times the identical story about the Cargo Cults in New Guinea after WW II. His father, who...more
Apr 22, 2013JJ rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I love this man. He is brilliant, seems humble, and funny as hell. This is an excellent collection of some of his ideas and stories, mostly about his life experiences and how he became who he was. Even if you do not have a good understanding of physics or even math you will still enjoy this book. It is not a tractate or a manual but rather a collections of anecdotal stories and interviews that allow anyone to take a peek into the mind of this true badass.
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Shelves: physics, science, non-fiction
For those who might not know, Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist, canny self-promoter and renowned teacher who worked on the Manhatten Project before he had even finished his Doctoral Thesis. Many books by and about him have been published and he has become a kind of miniature industry since his death; almost anybody who attended one of his lectures and scribbled some notes has tried to get them published, there are biographies and a volume of letters, CDs of impromt...more
Jun 26, 2013Frances rated it really liked it · review of another edition
OH MAN I LOVE YOU RICHARD FEYNMAN.
While significantly more technical than Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! I still really appreciated the writing and his insights into the physical universe. I feel like more teenagers should read Feynman - he believes so strongly in LIVING and THINKING and WORKING while still enjoying oneself that he could do so much good for that age bracket.
Also, as an aside - can you even imagine the conversations between this guy and Neil Degrasse Tyson? CAN YOU.
Jun 25, 2016Peter Mcloughlin rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: 00000good-things, intellectual-history, 1960-to-1989, american-history, essays, nature, general-science, owned-books, physics, 1890-1959
Richard Feynman is a founder of Quantum Field theory and among the greatest physicists of the 20th century. He is also an interesting and irreverent personality. Reading him is refreshing and his mercurial skepticism is and down to earth style make him fun to read. He covers personal anecdotes like safecracking at Los Alamos, to his report on the space shuttle and some interesting science talks two of which for saw miniturization as the path forward for computers and see a future in what is call...more
Apr 17, 2010Dennis Littrell rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Brilliance and charm: Feynman as a teacher
I very much enjoyed this entertaining and delightful collection of lectures, talks and essays by the world-renown and sorely missed Professor Feynman, Nobel Prize winning physicist, idiosyncratic genius and one of the great men of the twentieth century.
I particularly enjoyed the subtle yet unmistakable way he scolded the people at NASA for putting their political butts before the safety of the space program they were managing in his famous 'Minority Repo...more
Jun 16, 2018Melissa McShane rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Richard Feynman is one of my heroes, and this short, very accessible book compiles some of his most engaging writings, as well as a couple of interviews and the report he wrote on the space shuttle Challenger disaster. It's not as biographical as Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character or as technical as Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher, and I think this would be a good place to start for anyone interested in learning about this f...more
Apr 08, 2018Neeraj Adhikari rated it really liked it · review of another edition
it is such a pleasure to read Feynman's speeches. There is a marked difference in the way people talk about something when they enjoy doing the thing and are good at it than when they don't enjoy it very much. That is very noticeable in this book. Feynman has a way of making his sense of wonder and the hunger of understanding things very contagious. The biggest takeaway that a person not involved in the sciences can get from this book is a solid understanding of what is and what is not science.
W...more
Dec 12, 2018Heather K (dentist in my spare time) rated it liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: narrator-very-good, non-fiction, audiobook, not-a-romance-book

Feynman is brilliant, but I spaced out at times. Some very interesting parts, but many parts difficult for a non-physicist to follow.
Dec 03, 2016Mustafa Khalid rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I can't believe how excellent this Book is, he is truly a great story teller and has a quite unique way of thinking , and also a brilliant man. He looks a lot like client eastwood is this book . Don't be fooled by the low quality, worth a readed .
Sep 23, 2017Ivan Hrvoić rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Everyone in search for a truth has its own road, but all roads in never-ending search for the truth eventually lead to physics. I’ve met Feynman several years ago on mine. Among all other physicist Feynman was the one most distinctively standing out as he was the one who could do the best job of familiarizing the layman with the ways of nature and things hard to grasp intuitively. I also like Sagan, but I found him more like inspirational guy, Feynman was one with magnificent explanations. A lot...more
May 03, 2014Nico Scagliarini rated it liked it · review of another edition
I have always been wary of scientists and scientific literature, because being apparently the 'artsy' type I have been struggling with hard sciences my whole life: I always found them fascinating and scary at the same time and I only managed to make peace with Mathematics a few years ago. Never with Physics or Chemistry, and I always thought people who do them for a living were some kind of aliens. And they are (and so one more fond of science might say about artists), but after reading this boo...more
Nov 01, 2014Marko rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This was my first glimpse into the life and mind of Richard Feynman, and boy was it a ride! I had some expectations based on some of the stories I heard and his general fame, but the actual Feynman turned to be much deeper and interesting than just those glimpses in popular myths.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is going to give you just that. Through the speeches and essays in this book you will see the workings of an extraordinary mind and learn much about the process of science and its plac...more
Apr 05, 2012David Hammond rated it liked it · review of another edition
This book is a bit of a mixed bag. Some of the stories are entertaining, some show a brilliant scientific mind at work, and some provide thought-provoking insights into the role of science in society. Still there is an inelegance to the whole thing. Most of the pieces are from lectures, talks, and interviews that Feynman gave at one time or another, and while I'm sure he is an engaging speaker, they don't transfer to the page all that well. There are also various repetitions of Feynman's pet ide...more
Nov 29, 2016Baal Of rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: biography, philosophy, science, mathematics, non-fiction
Reading Feynman is a delight. His straight-forward, conversational tone, and his ability to simply explain complex concepts is amazing. His flaws make him seem human, and his humility makes him endearing. It is apparent in this book, and others I've read, that he genuinely wants to communicate not just pontificate. We need more people like him.
Feb 13, 2011Cassandra Carico rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I love this man. How could I not, especially after reading his own words. I feel even more admiration and respect for such a brilliant, yet humble individual. I enjoyed getting a look into the inner workings of his mind.
Dec 03, 2017Chaunceton Bird rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Quality reading from a master of physics with a sense of humor.
Jan 30, 2016Scott Pierce rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Apr 01, 2017Mike rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I enjoyed What Do You Care What Other People Think? so much I picked this up and jumped right in. There is some overlap in the stories between these two works (and apparently in his other more famous work Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!). I continue to enjoy the perspective that Feynman brings to life. He wants to better understand the world and enjoys solving problems, getting a 'kick out of the discovery' of a solution that others can use.
Feynman embraces doubt/uncertainty as the basis for...more
Apr 24, 2016Il piacere di scoprire feynman pdf viewer freeMenglong Youk rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: audiobook, physics, science, philosophy, biography, nonfiction
'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out' is a collection of speeches, lectures, and published papers of one of the greatest physicists in the 20th century, Richard P. Feynman's. If you have read his autobiography 'Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynman', you'll be familiar with his curiosity and playful characters, cracking safes, playing pranks on colleagues, and observing his surrounding no matter how mad he might appear to other people. 'I'm not responsible for what other people think I am able to do...more
Mar 18, 2014Chad rated it liked it · review of another edition
I really enjoyed reading my first book by Richard Feynman. The only problem is, this isn't really a book by Richard Feynman. It's a collection of some of his speeches, along with (what has to be only a portion? of) his Minority Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. Feynman is brilliant and has a quirky sense of humor and playfulness, and that comes out in his speeches. But it felt like some of the rigor of his scientific prowess was missing, simply because the format of a speech is so...more
Apr 20, 2018Ramu Vairavan rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: biography-memoir-autobio, non-fiction, science-future
This is a fine collection of Feynman's lectures, interviews and writing that introduces us to the man, scientist and Nobel laureate. Through his stories, Feynman paints an enigmatic character out of his father that rivals his own. And so we really get to meet two interesting people.
A few things I gathered from this collection: Feynman is all about ideas. He plays with them like a child plays with toys. His imagination is vast, he dreamed up advancements in nanotechnology decades before they were...more
Mar 29, 2016Jerry rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about…

This is a collection of “the best short works of Richard P. Feynman”. As such, if you’ve read Feynman’s two biographical works, a couple of the chapters there are reproduced here, and many of the stori...more
Mar 22, 2017Bishnu Bhatta Buttowski rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
THE MORE I READ ABOUT FEYNMAN, THE MORE I FEEL THAT I'M BECOMING IGNORANT ABOUT HIM AND HIS DOINGS. ON THE OTHER HAND MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WHICH ADDS SURPLUS IN ME COMPENSATING THE LOSS, IS MY SOUL AND EVERY DAY LIFE FILLING UP WITH THE CAREFREE FINDINGS AND KNOWING ABOUT THE WORLD.
All I'd like to say and what I feel after going through life time and again is 'I don't know what to do with all these joys, with all the knowledge and the enthusiasm that feels me up when I address the true beauty o...more
Dec 30, 2009Elena rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Like my affinity for Harold Bloom, Richard Feynman can do no wrong in my book. He was a man that thought outside the box, and was ahead beyond the technology of his time. However, what left the most lasting impression in this book is when Feynman turns into a bit of a philosopher and it made me think for days.
Feynman discusses the Heritages of Western Civilization:
Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientifice spirit of adventure- the adventure into t...more
Jul 16, 2018Amira Bousdjira rated it liked it · review of another edition
Richard Feynman, a brillant scientific and a bad philospher ..
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This is what I got when I've read reviews here about that, but I said NO ! not that much, he should have some beautiful views about philosophy and epistemology, just similar to the beauty of his science and stories.. but unfortunately he hadn't, and the saddest thing was that he tried to answer methaphysical and religious questions using the scientific empirical method. NO Dr.Feynman, don't do it please !
I will investigate the wor
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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Pr...more

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“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.” — 37 likes
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman—from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance spe...more
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Jun 02, 2016Darwin8u rated it really liked it
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
― Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'
― Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
It is hard to not love Feynman. You can love his as a scientist, as a man, as a genius, as a teacher, as an iconoclast. He is the real deal. 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out' is a series of 13 speeches, articles, essays, interviews by or wi...more
Jan 08, 2009Chris rated it liked it
Here's the problem with having high expectations: they're so often dashed.
In my years trawling the web and being a science nerd, I've heard a lot about Richard Feynman. There are legends about him, that he was the Puck of physics - brilliant, untamed, and really, really funny. When I got the book, I was expecting to read a lightning-quick volley of ideas that would set my mind alight with the wonder and infinite possibilities continued within a lifetime's pursuit of science.
Yeah, that didn't qui...more
Apr 19, 2012Andrew Martin rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Whatever your opinion of Feynman, you need to reconcile the fact that he's got unbearably retrograde opinions:
'When I was at Cornell, I was rather fascinated by the student body, which seems to me was a dilute mixture of some sensible people in a big mass of dumb people studying home economics, etc, including lots of girls. I used to sit in the cafeteria with the students and eat and try to overhear their conversations and see if there was one intelligent word coming out. You can imagine my surp...more
Mar 15, 2011Hadrian rated it really liked it
Shelves: essays, nonfiction, biography-memoir, philosophy, science
A collection of truly fun essays about all sorts of things. It's almost a kind of pick-me-up for the scientifically minded.
Some of the best essays are the ones concerning nanotechnology, 'What is Science?', and the discussion on religion - particularly interesting given the resurgence of non-belief in recent years.
Not much new if you're already a devotee of Feynman, but I'd be happy to give my copy to someone new to him.
Sep 22, 2013Jim Fonseca rated it really liked it
Feynman is brilliant, arrogant and emotionally cold. He was the youngest brilliant mind working on the atomic bomb in Los Alamos in the 1940's and later won the Nobel Prize in physics. This book is an unintegrated collection of essays, transcripts of speeches, interviews and memoirs. As such it gets repetitive. We hear three or four times about how his father taught him to observe and we hear three or four times the identical story about the Cargo Cults in New Guinea after WW II. His father, who...more
I love this man. He is brilliant, seems humble, and funny as hell. This is an excellent collection of some of his ideas and stories, mostly about his life experiences and how he became who he was. Even if you do not have a good understanding of physics or even math you will still enjoy this book. It is not a tractate or a manual but rather a collections of anecdotal stories and interviews that allow anyone to take a peek into the mind of this true badass.
Sep 09, 2009Robert rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: physics, non-fiction, science
For those who might not know, Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist, canny self-promoter and renowned teacher who worked on the Manhatten Project before he had even finished his Doctoral Thesis. Many books by and about him have been published and he has become a kind of miniature industry since his death; almost anybody who attended one of his lectures and scribbled some notes has tried to get them published, there are biographies and a volume of letters, CDs of impromt...more
Jun 26, 2013Frances rated it really liked it
OH MAN I LOVE YOU RICHARD FEYNMAN.
While significantly more technical than Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! I still really appreciated the writing and his insights into the physical universe. I feel like more teenagers should read Feynman - he believes so strongly in LIVING and THINKING and WORKING while still enjoying oneself that he could do so much good for that age bracket.
Also, as an aside - can you even imagine the conversations between this guy and Neil Degrasse Tyson? CAN YOU.
Jun 25, 2016Peter Mcloughlin rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: 00000good-things, intellectual-history, 1960-to-1989, american-history, nature, 1890-1959, computers, general-history, nonfiction, general-science
Richard Feynman is a founder of Quantum Field theory and among the greatest physicists of the 20th century. He is also an interesting and irreverent personality. Reading him is refreshing and his mercurial skepticism is and down to earth style make him fun to read. He covers personal anecdotes like safecracking at Los Alamos, to his report on the space shuttle and some interesting science talks two of which for saw miniturization as the path forward for computers and see a future in what is call...more
Apr 17, 2010Dennis Littrell rated it it was amazing
Brilliance and charm: Feynman as a teacher
I very much enjoyed this entertaining and delightful collection of lectures, talks and essays by the world-renown and sorely missed Professor Feynman, Nobel Prize winning physicist, idiosyncratic genius and one of the great men of the twentieth century.
I particularly enjoyed the subtle yet unmistakable way he scolded the people at NASA for putting their political butts before the safety of the space program they were managing in his famous 'Minority Repo...more
Jun 16, 2018Melissa McShane rated it really liked it
Richard Feynman is one of my heroes, and this short, very accessible book compiles some of his most engaging writings, as well as a couple of interviews and the report he wrote on the space shuttle Challenger disaster. It's not as biographical as Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character or as technical as Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher, and I think this would be a good place to start for anyone interested in learning about this f...more
Apr 08, 2018Neeraj Adhikari rated it really liked it
it is such a pleasure to read Feynman's speeches. There is a marked difference in the way people talk about something when they enjoy doing the thing and are good at it than when they don't enjoy it very much. That is very noticeable in this book. Feynman has a way of making his sense of wonder and the hunger of understanding things very contagious. The biggest takeaway that a person not involved in the sciences can get from this book is a solid understanding of what is and what is not science.
W...more
Dec 12, 2018FeynmanHeather K (dentist in my spare time) rated it liked it
Shelves: non-fiction, narrator-very-good, audiobook, not-a-romance-book

Feynman is brilliant, but I spaced out at times. Some very interesting parts, but many parts difficult for a non-physicist to follow.
Dec 03, 2016Mustafa Khalid rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I can't believe how excellent this Book is, he is truly a great story teller and has a quite unique way of thinking , and also a brilliant man. He looks a lot like client eastwood is this book . Don't be fooled by the low quality, worth a readed .
Everyone in search for a truth has its own road, but all roads in never-ending search for the truth eventually lead to physics. I’ve met Feynman several years ago on mine. Among all other physicist Feynman was the one most distinctively standing out as he was the one who could do the best job of familiarizing the layman with the ways of nature and things hard to grasp intuitively. I also like Sagan, but I found him more like inspirational guy, Feynman was one with magnificent explanations. A lot...more
May 03, 2014Nico Scagliarini rated it liked it · review of another edition
I have always been wary of scientists and scientific literature, because being apparently the 'artsy' type I have been struggling with hard sciences my whole life: I always found them fascinating and scary at the same time and I only managed to make peace with Mathematics a few years ago. Never with Physics or Chemistry, and I always thought people who do them for a living were some kind of aliens. And they are (and so one more fond of science might say about artists), but after reading this boo...more
Nov 01, 2014Marko rated it it was amazing
This was my first glimpse into the life and mind of Richard Feynman, and boy was it a ride! I had some expectations based on some of the stories I heard and his general fame, but the actual Feynman turned to be much deeper and interesting than just those glimpses in popular myths.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is going to give you just that. Through the speeches and essays in this book you will see the workings of an extraordinary mind and learn much about the process of science and its plac...more
This book is a bit of a mixed bag. Some of the stories are entertaining, some show a brilliant scientific mind at work, and some provide thought-provoking insights into the role of science in society. Still there is an inelegance to the whole thing. Most of the pieces are from lectures, talks, and interviews that Feynman gave at one time or another, and while I'm sure he is an engaging speaker, they don't transfer to the page all that well. There are also various repetitions of Feynman's pet ide...more
Nov 29, 2016Baal Of rated it it was amazing
Shelves: science, mathematics, non-fiction, philosophy, biography
Reading Feynman is a delight. His straight-forward, conversational tone, and his ability to simply explain complex concepts is amazing. His flaws make him seem human, and his humility makes him endearing. It is apparent in this book, and others I've read, that he genuinely wants to communicate not just pontificate. We need more people like him.
Feb 13, 2011Cassandra Carico rated it it was amazing
I love this man. How could I not, especially after reading his own words. I feel even more admiration and respect for such a brilliant, yet humble individual. I enjoyed getting a look into the inner workings of his mind.
Dec 03, 2017Chaunceton Bird rated it really liked it
Quality reading from a master of physics with a sense of humor.
A very enjoyable read.
Apr 01, 2017Mike rated it really liked it
I enjoyed What Do You Care What Other People Think? so much I picked this up and jumped right in. There is some overlap in the stories between these two works (and apparently in his other more famous work Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!). I continue to enjoy the perspective that Feynman brings to life. He wants to better understand the world and enjoys solving problems, getting a 'kick out of the discovery' of a solution that others can use.
Feynman embraces doubt/uncertainty as the basis for...more
Apr 24, 2016Menglong Youk rated it really liked it
Shelves: audiobook, physics, science, biography, nonfiction, philosophy
'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out' is a collection of speeches, lectures, and published papers of one of the greatest physicists in the 20th century, Richard P. Feynman's. If you have read his autobiography 'Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynman', you'll be familiar with his curiosity and playful characters, cracking safes, playing pranks on colleagues, and observing his surrounding no matter how mad he might appear to other people. 'I'm not responsible for what other people think I am able to do...more
Mar 18, 2014Chad rated it liked it · review of another edition
I really enjoyed reading my first book by Richard Feynman. The only problem is, this isn't really a book by Richard Feynman. It's a collection of some of his speeches, along with (what has to be only a portion? of) his Minority Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. Feynman is brilliant and has a quirky sense of humor and playfulness, and that comes out in his speeches. But it felt like some of the rigor of his scientific prowess was missing, simply because the format of a speech is so...more
Apr 20, 2018Ramu Vairavan rated it really liked it
Shelves: non-fiction, biography-memoir-autobio, science-future
This is a fine collection of Feynman's lectures, interviews and writing that introduces us to the man, scientist and Nobel laureate. Through his stories, Feynman paints an enigmatic character out of his father that rivals his own. And so we really get to meet two interesting people.
A few things I gathered from this collection: Feynman is all about ideas. He plays with them like a child plays with toys. His imagination is vast, he dreamed up advancements in nanotechnology decades before they were...more
Mar 29, 2016Jerry rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about…

This is a collection of “the best short works of Richard P. Feynman”. As such, if you’ve read Feynman’s two biographical works, a couple of the chapters there are reproduced here, and many of the stori...more
Mar 22, 2017Bishnu Bhatta Buttowski rated it it was amazing
THE MORE I READ ABOUT FEYNMAN, THE MORE I FEEL THAT I'M BECOMING IGNORANT ABOUT HIM AND HIS DOINGS. ON THE OTHER HAND MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WHICH ADDS SURPLUS IN ME COMPENSATING THE LOSS, IS MY SOUL AND EVERY DAY LIFE FILLING UP WITH THE CAREFREE FINDINGS AND KNOWING ABOUT THE WORLD.
All I'd like to say and what I feel after going through life time and again is 'I don't know what to do with all these joys, with all the knowledge and the enthusiasm that feels me up when I address the true beauty o...more
Dec 30, 2009Elena rated it really liked it
Like my affinity for Harold Bloom, Richard Feynman can do no wrong in my book. He was a man that thought outside the box, and was ahead beyond the technology of his time. However, what left the most lasting impression in this book is when Feynman turns into a bit of a philosopher and it made me think for days.
Feynman discusses the Heritages of Western Civilization:
Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientifice spirit of adventure- the adventure into t...more
Jul 16, 2018Amira Bousdjira rated it liked it
Richard Feynman, a brillant scientific and a bad philospher ..
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This is what I got when I've read reviews here about that, but I said NO ! not that much, he should have some beautiful views about philosophy and epistemology, just similar to the beauty of his science and stories.. but unfortunately he hadn't, and the saddest thing was that he tried to answer methaphysical and religious questions using the scientific empirical method. NO Dr.Feynman, don't do it please !
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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Pr...more
“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.” — 37 likes
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