The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman (PDF)

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This collection from scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner highlights the achievements of a man whose career reshaped the world’s understanding of quantum electrodynamics. 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 speech, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the world of ideas.

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⭐Written by a genius in terms/words that can be understood/appreciated. After you’ve read his books, you may want to watch several of his lectures on youtube, as well.

⭐One could easily retitle this book “The Pleasure of Finding Feynman.”Feynman deserved to be on the national bestseller list with this one. If anyone ever asks me to define a genius, I can do that in one word…Feynman. It has been a real joy for me to have found him and then to read his writings, view his lectures which are mostly collected at YouTube online and not necessarily easy going, and to read/hear what his contemoraries recall about his role in their lives.Knowing a genius isn’t something that most of us will encounter in our lives. We may know some very smart people who are much smarter than ourselves. But a genius is so much smarter than those smart people and the rest of us that it makes me wish that I could live in the genius world that he inhabits. A genius is to a normal and even above normal mind as a cat is to a mouse…so much faster than lightening that the mouse can’t even begin to imagine it…and is doomed to be lunch. I wish my mind could do what his mind does…even for a short time (“Flowers for Algernon” anyone?). The next best thing then is to get to know him, and since he is dead the only way to do that is to try to get to know him through what he writes, what he says, his lectures, his humor, his philosophy and his astonishing comtributions to Physics and many other fields.If I ever had the opportunity to sit down with him for a beer and have a conversation, I really wouldn’t say very much at all. What I would do, is to listen as he pulls seemingly unrelated threads and things together to clearly illustrate his point in a way that even a layman can understand; and then I would hope that he had nowhere to go so that he could hang around and do that all over again with subject after subject until my ears were tired. Listening to his voice and seeing him deliver is just amazing.If you want a taste of Feynman and a glimpse into the mind of a genius, buy and read this book and travel a bit with him. You definitely do not have to be a physicist to take away your own sense of wonder, respect, and just plain joy at meeting Richard Feynman on the printed pages of this book.

⭐I bought the book new and as expected it was in great condition. This is a must read Feynman was ahead of his time with his vision for nanotechnology and supercomputers. This also shows a glimpse of Feynman as a child and how his dad influenced his curiosity and approach to understanding the physical sciences.

⭐The cover art is simplistic, but capturing. Of what I’ve read so far, it’s easily been a page-turner. You would think based on that, I would rate it 5 stars. The 4 stars comes from that fact that it arrived with a number of creases in the cover. Overall, I recommend the book highly but maybe not on Amazon.

⭐I love books about Dr. Feynman

⭐These short stories give a glimpse into the mind and life of Feynman. I found myself rather pleased with finding out that Feynman’s view of how things should be done is very similar to my own. Thus, it is not so strange that I liked reading it. I did skip a few sections that I found less interesting, but it is a book that lends itself very well to skipping parts, due to the short segments and frequent shifts in topic. There are also several things repeated in his texts, possibly because he was particularly fond of those examples, but it didn’t subtract much from my enjoyment of the texts.

⭐While some parts of this book are very enjoyable and provide a wonderful window into both Feynman’s way of thinking, and the historical context (the “Los Alamos from Below” section, for example), I found others more difficult. Still worth reading, absolutely, just don’t expect the same level of interest, humor, scientific detail, or just about any other aspect to be consistent from one section to another. This makes sense, as the book is a collection of items given to – and intended for – different audiences at different times. Unfortunately, at least for me, the inconsistencies meant that I could barely put the book down while reading some sections but found myself preferring other reading material over Mr Feynman’s musings while working my way through the others.

⭐Richard Feynman was one of the world’s greatest physicists and characters. If you have read anything about his life you know that he was irreverent, quirky, odd and an absolute genius of the highest magnitude. This is a fantastic book to understand the power of curiosity. If you want to know how one of the smartest people on the face of the earth approached innovation, creativity and deep thinking – this is an excellent book to read.

⭐Great book if you’re interested in science without having any knowledge of it.For everyone.

⭐Super Feynman stuff : sadly much of it is already published in ” Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman “, and ” What Do You Care What Other People Think ?” Still : I’m glad I bought it, if only for the intro by Freeman Dyson and the report on the Challenger Space Disaster. The latter could be re-titled ” NASA’S DIRTY LAUNDRY WASHED IN PUBLIC ! ” or ” NASA’S NASTY SECRETS SPILLED ! ” He clearly warned another accident could happen, and then it did . COLUMBIA was caused by, as described on www.space.com . sic. ” An investigation board determined that a large piece of foam fell from the shuttle’s external tank and fatally breached the spacecraft wing. This problem with foam had been known for years, and NASA came under intense scrutiny in Congress and in the media for allowing the situation to continue.

⭐I love listening to Richard Feynman but this book baffled me after 3/4 chapters. He goes into some theoretical stuff I could not follow and that was also not very interesting from s physics point of view. A great man and maybe a great book but I struggled.

⭐Excellent book. Gave it to a an ex girlfriend who then told me she wanted to split up. Saved me the trouble. Excellent book.

⭐Great book. You can hear Feynman’s voice in your head as you read, which is a pleasure in itself.

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