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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman Author:Richard P. Feynman This collection of the best short works of rule-breaking genius Richard Feynman shows his passion for knowledge and sense of fun at their most infectious. The revealing and inspiring pieces here span a lifetime of enthusiasm for discovering what makes the world tick - including uproarious tales of early student experiments; safecracking and outw... more »itting US censors during the Second World War; his first lecture as a graduate student (to an audience including Albert Einstein); and the memories of the father who delighted in showing him the world and sparked his insatiable curiosity.
1. The pleasure of finding things out 2. Computing machines in the future 3. Los Alamos from below 4. What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society 5. There's plenty of room at the bottom 6. The value of science 7. Richard P. Feynman's minority report to the space shuttle Challenger's report 8. What is science? 9. The smartest man in the world 10. Cargo cult science : some remarks on pseudoscience and learning how to not fool yourself 11. It's as simple as one, two, three 12. Richard Feynman builds a universe 13. The relation of science and religion« less