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 Gr A New York Times bestseller?the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a l...
| Title | : | "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character |
| Author | : | Richard P. Feynman |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | Science |
| ISBN | : | "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character ISBN |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 pages pages |
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character Reviews
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 n...
This amusing little book of anecdotes had an alarmingly influential role in my life. It convinced me of the odd notion that it would be a good idea to go to Caltech and major in physics. In retrospect, this would have been a better idea had I been born around 1930 and was starting my s...
If not for copyright laws, this book could easily have been entitled, ?Oh, The Places You?ll Go!?. This is a captivating story of an amazing life that could not have been better had it been scripted at birth. Mr. Feynman has done it all. I loved the feeling of tagging along on...
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&ap...
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 a...
Laugh out loud funny. My dad read this outloud to us when we were kids - I'm guessing at the exact year - and the whole family literally cried with laughter many times during the performance. Feyman's other memoirs are good too, but this is the funniest. I still think of ...
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, scien...
This was a compilation of stories that Feynman tells from his own point of view. They were great. He seemed like a great guy. He was so full of life & had such an interest in it. From learning to pick locks, learn a different language, art, or music, he threw himself into the endea...
One of the problems with reading a book written by a genius is that you have to ask yourself whether any perceived deficiencies in the text are due to the author, or due to your own failure to comprehend his brilliance. That said, I wasn't thrilled by this book. On a purely techni...
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 stor...
This was disappointing, because I've been wanting to read this for a while because he is so renown for being quite the hilarious character as well as a Nobel prize-winning physicist. This is a collection of essays that serves as a memoir; many are not directly related to physics, ...
Brilliant, inspirational and very funny! There can be no argument that Richard P Feynman was a genius. He has been a hero of mine since I was very young, probably because my father also greatly admires him and spoke to me about Feynman and his unique personality from time to time. ...
The Nobel prize winning physicist, acclaimed drummer, artist, expert on Mayan astronomy, safecracker, prankster, etc, etc, tells ?crazy adventures? of his life. They?re really not ?crazy adventures,? these anecdotes; my own father's are easily just as rich and bizarre. F...
Before I read this engaging memoir, I knew him as Richard Phillips Feynman, one of the greatest physicists that ever lived. Henceforth, this name will evoke images of a prankster, a musician, a safe cracker, a biologist, a Brazilian band member, an artist who visited several brothels...
?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. Feynman.? The tit...
This is one of those books which bring a turning point in your life, and make you reevaluate it, much like Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture and Steve Jobs bio for me. Made me take interest in physics around us again. :) Feynman was surely a man of multiple lives, how could anybo...
This is the manual of curiosity and intelligence by the great physicist -- Richard Feynman. An incredible life of one of the prodigious thinkers is summarized in less than 400 pages. I would not have put it down even if the book was 4000 pages long, so interesting is the story, a real ...
Listen, I read this a long time ago but here's the thing about it. I'm a big sience fan, and I've always heard how brilliant and funny Richard Feynman was, especially because of his connection to the UofC. But I loathed this book. I suppose it's a memoir, and I don&...
This book's been recommended to me by my boyfriend and after giving it a 5-page trial, I got sucked right into it! I partially read it, partially listened to the audiobook (which was, imho, done really well and was so pleasant to listen to while doing puzzle or gaming or whatno...
I love this book so much. I really want to give it 6/5. I read and re-read it often, and Feynman is one of my personal top heroes. ...
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?...
What a fascinating personality! To follow your dreams, make them happen, make a living out of them, ultimately all this work to be of help for others and above all to enjoy life as you wish to - this is what I call to live your life to the fullest! Mr. Feynman stories are simply wo...
?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 failing.? ? Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! I've been circli...
What?s the mark of a truly genius mind? If I try to conjure up the memories of my experience with the Indian education system, then now I can starkly discern the relatively perduring differences between the two types of students, the one who is teacher?s favourite (the exemplar ...
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 women). The audiobook reader did a grea...
"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 st...
There is no guarantee that one wouldn't feel bored while reading this book, which was probably the reason why it took me so long to read it, but by the end, it leaves the readers with the impression that Mr. Feynman was, undoubtedly, a genius and indeed, a curious character. Th...
Fellers, lemme tell you about one of the smartest sumbitches to ever walk the earth by way of narrative aid. Picture this: You?ve covered yourself from head to tippy-toe in Vaseline, you?ve been grappling with the concept of higher dimensions all damn night. Engaging in repeat...
This collection of stories was a tad bit uneven, but overall a helluva lot of fun! Feynman?s childlike curiosity and enthusiasm are infectious; he was a really likeable guy. With respect to math and science, Feynman made some excellent points about the dangers of rote memorizatio...
?The whole problem of discovering what was the matter, and figuring out what you have to do to fix it?that was interesting to me, like a puzzle.? 4 Stars // 81% "Surely You're Joking" is the autobiography of Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist wit...
