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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 outwitting 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.
| ISBN | 0141031433 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780141031439
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 212 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9780140290349 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 06 Sep 2007 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Writer of foreword | Freeman Dyson | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY | 530 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Foreword by Freeman Dyson | | | | | | Editor's Introduction | | | | 1 | | The Pleasure of Finding Things Out | | 1 | | 2 | | Computing Machines in the Future | | 27 | | 3 | | Los Alamos from Below | | 53 | | 4 | | What Is and What Should Be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society | | 97 | | 5 | | There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom | | 117 | | 6 | | The Value of Science | | 141 | | 7 | | Richard P. Feynman's Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry | | 151 | | 8 | | What Is Science? | | 171 | | 9 | | The Smartest Man in the World | | 189 | | 10 | | Cargo Cult Science: Some Remarks on Science, Pseudoscience, and Learning How to Not Fool Yourself | | 205 | | 11 | | It's as Simple as One, Two, Three | | 217 | | 12 | | Richard Feynman Builds a Universe | | 225 | | 13 | | The Relation of Science and Religion | | 245 | | | | Acknowledgments | | 259 | | | | Index | | 261 |
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