"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Posted on 12 November 2018 by Richard P. Feynman

A New York Times bestseller the outrageous exploits of one of this century s greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums painting a naked female toreador In short, here is Feynman s life in all its eccentric a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah. Free Download "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This book of anecdotes is written in a very casual, fun way that makes it easy to read The problem is that the author, Nobel Prize winning physicist Dick Feynman, is annoying All the anecdotes involve him discovering a hidden talent, using it, delighting others or himself if that s his real goal and then being applauded for it sometimes only by himself For example, he discovers that he s a great artist, musi...This book was a pure delight The subtitle Adventures of a Curious Character is spot on Feynman gave an amazingly human and honest view into his philosophy and take on life, thought a series of stories.One thing that struck me most deeply was his passion for learning new things You would think a world famous Physicist would just be passionate for Physics but Feynman was curious about everything he saw He dabbled in art and was successful enough to have a show, he joined a Brazilian Bongo This book was a pure delight The subtitle Adventures of a Curious Character is spot on Feynman gave an amazingly human and honest view into his philosophy and take on life, thought a series of stories.One thing that struck me most deeply was his passion for learning new things You would think a world famous Physicist would just be passionate for Physics but Feynman was curious about everything he saw He dabbled in art and was successful enough to have a show, he joined a Brazilian Bongo group and competed with them, he hung out in Vegas until he grokked gambling, he spent time in strip bars in Arizona until he figured out how to pick up women, he cracked safes in Los Alamos for fun the list goes on My take you should have your passions but you should also have your hobbies I think I need a new hobby I really enjoyed his lessons learned from observing the Brazilian educational system He noted that many of the students were ...Hadn t thought a Nobel pprize winning physicist could be so fun loving down to earth He was a man ahead of his time when it came to many things of his time when it came to his ideas about pretty girls as he calls wo...Would you like cream or lemon in your tea, Mr Feynman It s Mrs Eisenhart, pouring tea I ll have both, thank you, I say, still looking for where I m going to sit, when suddenly I hear Heh heh heh heh heh Surely you re joking, Mr FeynmanThe title of this collection comes from a tale that took place early in Feynman s career where he was invited for an afternoon tea with the dean of his university The dean s wife is serving and asks him the above question Richard never drinks teaWould you like cream or lemon in your tea, Mr Feynman It s Mrs Eisenhart, pouring tea I ll have both, thank you, I say, still looking for where I m going to sit, when suddenly I hear Heh heh heh heh heh Surely you re joking, Mr FeynmanThe title of this collection comes from a tale that took place early in Feynman s career where he was invited for an afternoon tea with the dean of his university The dean s wife is serving and asks him the above question Richard never drinks tea and never moves in the same society that does, little own the society that has lemon OR cream with it A big theme of these stori...You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be It s their mistake, not my failingRichard Feynman, Surely You re Joking, Mr Feynman I ve been circling this book, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, and Gleck s Genius The Life and Science of Richard Feynman for awhile This one seemed the most fun and easiest place to start I was driving from Taos Santa Fe back to Phoenix last week and as IYou have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish I have no responsibil...Nobody ever figures out what life is all about,and it doesn t matter Explore the world Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough Video Review The story of Feynman changed fundamentally, what I think about the world around me.The story of Richard and his father helped me to understand, that many parents could help their children to afulfilling life Parents could pique the interest of the child very early and could give him real answers if he asks why Nobody ever figures out what life is all about,and it doesn t ma...Everyone has a collection of favorite stories that they enjoy telling but it s unusual for the stories to be so good that a friend insists on writing them down, so that other people can appreciate them too When I read this book, I almost feel that Feynman s telling the stories himself Well, when that happens in real life, you always want to join in here s my personal best effort at a Feynman type anecdote I hope it s now far enough in the past that the people concerned will see the funny Everyone has a collection of favorite stories that they enjoy telling but it s unusual for the stories to be so good that a friend insists on writing them down, so that other people can appreciate them too When I read this book, I almost feel that Feynman s telling the stories himself Well, when that happens in real life, you always want to join in here s my personal best effort at a Feynman ... I ll never make that mistake again, reading the experts opinions Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that s the end of you. I can usually tell when I m going to give a book 5 stars by one sign I can t shut up about it Well, I couldn t and can t shut up about this book it was simply great This greatness sort of snuck up on me I d recently read a collection of anecdotes by a scientist A Primate s Memoir and found it rather I ll never make that mistake again, reading the experts opinions Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that s the end of you. I can usually tell when I m going to give a book 5 stars by one sign I can t shut up about it Well, I couldn t and can t shut up about this book it was simply great This greatness sort of snuck up on me I d recently read a collection of anecdotes by a scientist A Primate s Memoir a...Feynman is a physicist who taught at Cornell and Princeton, worked on the Manhattan Project and won the Nobel Prize He s also a complete hoot The book is a series of autobiographical stories pranks pulled as a student at MIT and at Los Alamos, teaching himself to paint, scientific discoveries he made, his three marriages, how he was rejected by the draft board for being mentally suspect they asked him if he ever heard voices and he said yes he did and then went on to describe what he found Feynman is a physicist who taught at Cornell and Princeton, worked on the Manhattan Project and won the Nobel Prize He s also a complete hoot The book is a series of autobiographical stories pranks pulled as a student at MIT and at Los Alamos, teaching himself to paint, scientific discoveries he made, his three marriages, how he was rejected by the draft board for being mentally suspect they asked him if he ever heard voices and he said yes he did and then went on to describe what he found interesting about that He said that sometimes when falling in and out of sleep he d imagine conversations with his foreign born colleagues and the voices in his head spoke accurately with their accents but that if he tried to imitate such accents he could not do so at all So how was it that one part of his bra...There s presumably a rule where only smart people are awarded Nobel Prizes in Physics Richard Feynman was no exception This memoir is filled with anecdotes from his childhood spent fixing radios, his experiences as a young man doing bomb research at Los Alamos up through his days as a renowned professor at Cal Tech The central theme was always that this is one smart cookie It was interesting to pick up on his thought processes It probably didn t feature as much pure science as most of his There s presumably a rule where only smart people are awarded Nobel Prizes in Physics Richard Feynman was no exception This memoir is filled with anecdotes from his childhood spent fixing radios, his experiences as a young man doing bomb research at Los Alamos up through his days as a renowned professor at Cal Tech The central theme was always that this is one smart cookie It was interesting to pick up on his thought processes It probably didn t feature as much pure science as most of his other books, but at least you could appreciate his intuition into the physical world s biggest puzzles Rather than emphasizing the technical details of physics, most of his stories were focused on his other interests and his geeky humor.While some of the stories were entertaining, and the lumens of candle power ...

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

12 November 2018

Richard P. Feynman