Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman · 1985
The funniest, most life-affirming account of being a scientist ever written. Feynman's stories about safe-cracking at Los Alamos, learning to pick up women in bars, and doing Nobel Prize-winning physics communicate, better than any textbook, that science is about radical curiosity and the joy of not knowing.
The case against
Every story has the same shape: the room is full of experts, they are wrong, Feynman is right, and modesty arrives late if at all. The chapters on learning to pick up women in bars have aged about as well as you'd expect. Charm carries the book, but it's the charm of a man who never lost an argument he chose to retell.
Non-Fiction · the Pro canon
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