The Pleasure of Finding Things Out The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

by Feynman, Richard P.; Dyson, Freeman

• ISBN13: 9780465023950
• ISBN10: 0465023959
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-06
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynmanfrom interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the world of ideas.

Author Biography

Richard P. Feynman was raised in Far Rockaway, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton. He held professorships at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He died in 1988.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Freeman Dyson	vii
Editor's Introduction	xiii
1 The Pleasure of Finding Things Out	1	(26)
2 Computing Machines in the Future	27	(26)
3 Los Alamos from Below	53	(44)
4 What Is and What Should Be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society	97	(20)
5 There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom	117	(24)
6 The Value of Science	141	(10)
7 Richard P. Feynman's Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry	151	(20)
8 What Is Science?	171	(18)
9 The Smartest Man in the World	189	(16)
10 Cargo Cult Science: Some Remarks on Science, Pseudoscience, and Learning How to Not Fool Yourself	205	(12)
11 It's as Simple as One, Two, Three	217	(8)
12 Richard Feynman Builds a Universe	225	(20)
13 The Relation of Science and Religion	245	(14)
Acknowledgments	259	(2)
Index	261