The Quotable Feynman by Richard P. Feynman

By Richard P. Feynman

"Some humans say, ‘How are you able to dwell with out knowing?' i don't be aware of what they suggest. I continually dwell with out figuring out. that's effortless. the way you get to grasp is what i need to know."—Richard P. Feynman

Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918–88) was once that rarest of creatures—a towering medical genius who can make himself understood by way of an individual and who grew to become as well-known for the wit and knowledge of his renowned lectures and writings as for his primary contributions to technology. The Quotable Feynman is a treasure-trove of this respected and cherished scientist's so much profound, provocative, funny, and noteworthy quotations on quite a lot of subjects.

Carefully chosen by way of Richard Feynman's daughter, Michelle Feynman, from his spoken and written legacy, together with interviews, lectures, letters, articles, and books, the quotations are prepared below dozen topics—from artwork, formative years, discovery, family members, mind's eye, and humor to arithmetic, politics, technology, faith, and uncertainty. those short passages—about 500 in all—vividly exhibit Feynman's surprising but playful intelligence, and his nearly constitutional lack of ability to be something except unconventional, attractive, and encouraging. the result's a different, illuminating, and stress-free portrait of Feynman's lifestyles and inspiration that would be loved by means of his enthusiasts while that it presents an incredible creation to Feynman for readers new to this fascinating and significant thinker.

The e-book encompasses a foreword within which physicist Brian Cox will pay tribute to Feynman and describes how his phrases demonstrate his specific genius, a bit during which cellist Yo-Yo Ma stocks his thoughts of Feynman and displays on his enduring attraction, and a private preface by way of Michelle Feynman. it is usually a few formerly unpublished quotations, a chronology of Richard Feynman's lifestyles, a few twenty images of Feynman, and a piece of memorable quotations approximately Feynman from different amazing figures.

Features:

  • Approximately 500 quotations, a few of them formerly unpublished, prepared by means of topic
  • A foreword via Brian Cox, reflections through Yo-Yo Ma, and a preface through Michelle Feynman
  • A chronology of Feynman's life
  • Some twenty pictures of Feynman
  • A portion of quotations approximately Feynman from different extraordinary figures
  • Some amazing quotations of Richard P. Feynman:

  • "The factor that doesn't healthy is the main interesting."
  • "Thinking is not anything yet speaking to your self inside."
  • "It is marvelous when you can locate whatever you're keen on to do on your adolescence that is large enough to maintain your curiosity via your entire grownup lifestyles. simply because, no matter what it's, in case you do it good adequate (and you'll, should you really love it), humans pays you to do what you need to do anyway."
  • "I'd hate to die two times. It's so boring."
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    Letter to Dr. Victor F. Weisskopf, April 1962 The first morning I drove in was tremendously impressive; the beauty of the scenery, for a person from the east who didn’t travel much, was sensational. There are the great cliffs; you’ve probably seen the pictures, I won’t go into much detail. These things were high on the mesa and you’d come up from below and see these great cliffs and we were very surprised. The most impressive thing to me was that as I was going up, I said that maybe there were Indians even living here, and the guy who was driving the car just stopped; he stopped the car and walked around the corner and there were Indian caves that you could inspect.

    But he would describe anyway, in a vivid way, and always with some kind of lesson about it. ” – Interview with Charles Weiner, March 4, 1966 (Niels Bohr Library and Archives with the Center for the History of Physics) 10 The Quotable Feynman [On his sister, also a physicist:] She would hear us talking, and she would ask me, and I would explain it to her. It wasn’t so direct in her case. – Interview with Charles Weiner, March 4, 1966 (Niels Bohr Library and Archives with the Center for the History of Physics) I was always very upset if something went bad or if I was bad — I always tried to be a good boy.

    That didn’t seem too unobvious, but the ratio had some marvelous property. There was a mystery about this number that I didn’t quite understand as a youth, but this was a great thing, and the result was that I looked for pi everywhere. ” April 1966 [On his son:] He’s a lot like me, so at least I’ve passed on this idea that everything is interesting to at least one other person. Of course, I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not, you see? – Omni interview, February 1979 18 The Quotable Feynman [Advice to a father about a son:] The two of you — father and son — should take walks in the evening and talk (without purpose or routes) about this and that.

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