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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton - Richard P Feynman

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

By: Richard P Feynman

Paperback | 5 January 1993 | Edition Number 1

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A portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.
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"There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you can have no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician" -- Hans Bethe, theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate "A storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain. He proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time" * New York Times Book Review * "Quintessential Feynman - funny, brilliant, bawdy...enormously entertaining" * New Yorker * "Buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" * Science Digest *

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