The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- Author Richard P. Feynman
- Narrator Sean Runnette
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 15 April 2013
- Run Time 8 hours and 23 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Impact of science and technology on society, Philosophy of science, Physics, Science: general issues.
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What to expect
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 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
Critics Review
u201cA sparkling collection.u201d
u201cFeynmanu2019s distinctive voice rings out in this booku2026Feynman is both interesting and quotable.u201d
u201cA delightful reminder of Feynmanu2019s prodigious gifts.u201d
u201cFeynman had a fantastic sense of humor, and his memoirs of his Manhattan Project days roil with fun despite his later misgivings about nuclear weaponsu2026The book is easygoing and engaging on a personal rather than a scientific level.u201d
u201cFeynman remains fun and informative. Here are yet more comments, anecdotes, and overviews from a charismatic rule breaker with his own, sometimes compelling, views about what science is and how it can be done.u201d
u201cThis work, ndrawn from several sources, including speeches, interviews, and narticles, has a personal feel. And Sean Runnette delivers it in a npersonal, conversational wayu2026 Perhaps the nmost illuminating and interesting partu2014for non-physicists, anywayu2014is nthe behind-the-scenes discussion of life at Los Alamos, New Mexico, nduring the WWII atomic bomb project. The account shows Feynmanu2019s impish nside and humanizes this episode in the history of the war. Some of the nentries are highly technical, but Runnette carries them off without nhesitating or stereotyping the speaker with a pedantic tone.u201d
u201cIt is an ironic twist of fate that Feynman the iconoclast has become a twentieth-century icon. Feynman has a large and devoted following not because of his famous hijinks, or his skill as a bongo drum performer, or even his Nobel Prize in quantum electrodynamics. Feynman became an icon because he was a man of great integrity who did physics because it was fun. This collection of thirteen short works is a pleasure to readu2026Intended for a general audience, these lectures and presentations cover a wide range of topics, including his early life, philosophy, religion, nanotechnology, the future of computing, Los Alamos, fun with science, science and society, and the Challenger disaster. Recommended.u201d
nu201cThe most original mind of his generation.u201d
u201c[Feynmanu2019s] fans will enjoy his recollections of his father and of his work on the atom bomb project when he was a somewhat awestruck nobody rubbing elbows with world-famous physicists. A popular addition to Feynmania.u201d
u201cMore gems from the Feynman factory. If some things are old or borrowed, it hardly matters: there are enough new or unfamiliar to charm fansu2026All said, of course, in the idiom of the boy from New York whose pleasure in finding things out affords the reader another sort of pleasure.u201d
u201cThis marvelous collection of talks, interviews, and essays offers a memorable sample of the wit, brilliance, and irreverence of the most celebrated physicist of our time. The more one reads of Feynman, the more one falls in love with his refreshingly enthusiastic view of the world.u201d
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