Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Adventures of a Curious Character
The Nobel physicist as safe-cracker, bongo player and relentless prankster, with curiosity as a way of living
A collection of stories from the physicist Richard Feynman, assembled from tapes of him talking. He picks locks at Los Alamos, learns to draw, plays in a samba band in Brazil, and needles pompous authority wherever he finds it. Underneath the anecdotes is a serious argument about curiosity: that taking things apart to see how they work, purely for the pleasure of it, is most of what a good mind is for.
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