"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" : : Adventures of a Curious Character
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Amazing - Wish I read this book as a teen submitted by Mehreen on January 18, 2010, 1:34pm If you are curious by nature, adventuresome, open-minded, and looking to discover this world as fully as possible - Mr. Faynmann will be awe-inspiring. He is funny, brilliant and able to bring his passion to the masses through his writing. It seems like his goal is to have the time of his life, and the pursuit of knowledge was a sincere interest, not simply a path to a goal. The book made it to my favorites list before I finished the first 100 pages.
Persistently escapist, enlightening, and amusing submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on August 1, 2019, 9:53pm Physicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman’s scientific curiosity knew no bounds. His academic life, acuity, life-philosophy, and ability to communicate science are inspirational to anyone pursuing his/her own life’s fulfillment. The following biographies capture his many scientific achievements, playfulness, varied interests and hobbies, and—perhaps most notably—his many eccentricities.
Hilarious submitted by pepemama on June 19, 2020, 1:30pm He past away in 1988 in Pasadena, and I was living their at the time. Wish I knew about him then. What a life. What a gift. What a character. What a brain.
Great storyteller, but racist and sexist in the casual manner of his time
submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 15, 2022, 10:41pm
What I liked: Feynman is an excellent storyteller, and really has done a wide variety of things that make for humorous and engaging tales. He’s intellectually curious, and so the book covers a wide range of pursuits and adventures that are fun to read/ listen to.
What I didn’t like: Feynman is a product of his time and culture, and so the book is racist and sexist in ways that rub me wrong in 2021. His constant devaluing of women is appalling. The racism is more subtle, but he while having respect for a few individual “good” Indian or African people, he clearly views indigenous people of many different parts of the world as less-than. He even clearly states this at one point, saying that less developed countries are incapable of becoming scientifically proficient because they don’t have resources like more developed countries, when the reality is that developed countries have stolen the resources from less developed countries in order to create this disparity. He is blind to his blindness, while insisting over and over that since he’s thought things through and learned all he needs to know, he is the only one in the light.
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, c1985.
Year Published: 1985
Description: 350 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0393316041 :
0553346687 (pbk.) :
0553276646 :
0393019217 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Leighton, Ralph.
Hutchings, Edward.
SUBJECTS
Feynman, Richard Phillips.
Physicists -- Biography.
Science -- Anecdotes.