- Paperback
- Publisher: Vintage (1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 009917331X
- ISBN-13: 978-0099173311
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (157 customer reviews)
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WHEN I WAS about eleven or twelve I set up a lab in my house. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just plain hilarious!,
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This review is from: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Paperback)
I can't see why so many idiots give Feynman's books bad reviews and say "the guy is OVERRATED man!" These people are probably just jealous because Feynman was UNDOUBTEDLY the coolest smart-person who ever lived. Moreover, this is the book which provides conclusive proof of that fact. Anyone who says Feynman was overrated is blatantly wrong -- In fact, I have been interning at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, where I met a man named Don Thompson who actually met Feynman when he did his post-doctoral work at Caltech. As Don says, "Feynman was just as funny, brilliant, and vibrant as all the books and accounts say he was." So, buy this book, and don't believe all the idiots who give it bad reviews.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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An inspirational fascinating compilation of greatness,
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This review is from: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Paperback)
A compilation of chronologically lined-up short stories about Feynman's life, this book cannot be called an autobiography; we just get the « greatest hits ». We discover a really smart man through his relations with authority, art, science, religion, psychology, music and more. Feynman worked as a physicist but you don't find the typical introverted lab-coat nerd personality; instead we get to know a curious man with passions from lock picking to drums. Feynman mentions scientific stuff he works on to give context, but no more; we often forget he's a physicist (one of the most important physicists of the 20th Century, no less!): the book thus can be enjoyed by anybody, especially... you.
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Feynman up close and personal,
By dean_from_sa (Plano,TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman (Hardcover)
To borrow the phrase from MTV this is Feynman unplugged. I really enjoyed his commencement talk that is last chapter in the book. He exhorts his listeners to create real empirically supportable results in their research. There is a new kind of scientist in our midst that I feel Dr. Feynman would have detested. This kind of scientist is less interested in the reality of what is being studied and more interested in advancing a certain agenda. There is a great web site (junkscience^com) that catalogues many of these scientific gunslingers. This book is a retrospective that begins at the beginning and finishes in 1974 (many years before his report on the Challenger accident). It describes his early years working in a hotel, going to MIT, working at Los Alamos, and teaching at Cornell and Caltech. There are many demonstrations of his wicked wit and quirky (quarky?) sense of humor. He is quick to seize the opportunity to use his wit as is shown when he hides a door in his fraternity house. This is a fun read!
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