The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard P. Feynman
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard P. Feynman
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

Author: Richard P. Feynman

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/21/2013

Synopsis

The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis 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 sciencea life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will delight anyone interested in the world of ideas. From the irregular trivia of ordinary life mixed with a bit of scientific doodling and failure to the intense dramatic concentration as one closes in on the truth and the final elation (plus, with gradually decreasing frequency, the sudden sharp pangs of doubt)that is how science is done.Richard P. Feynman to James D. Watson

About Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) earned a BS from MIT and a PhD from Princeton. From 1942 to 1945, he assisted with the development of the atomic bomb. He then taught at Cornell and Caltech, where he contributed to the theories of superfluidity and quarks. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on January 08, 2009

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......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on May 14, 2012

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,......more

Goodreads review by Boudewijn on October 12, 2020

Perhaps not the best book to receive an introduction to the world and accomplishments from Richard Feynman. A loose collection of essay's about various topics, such as his time during the Manhattan project or his research in the Challenger disaster.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on September 06, 2015

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......more

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