Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character (Audiobook)

from mamzel

Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Richard Feynman, is terminally curious. From a young age he was always figuring out how things worked, what made things happen. He also likes to tease his friends and pull pranks. From the waitress in a coffee shop when he was a college student to the people at Los ...

from miketroll

Fascinating, often hilarious autobiographical episodes from the great physicist. Feynman is always worth the reader's time for his warmth, wit and wisdom, honesty, humility, and great good humour. But when it comes to women....every now and then he makes you wonder whether he was really such a ni...

from Robin_Goodfellow

If you want a little science, a little humour, a little entertainment, and a whole lot of fun working up a psychological profile on a very interesting guy, then this book is for you. Feynman deceives others (as a game / challenge), deceives himself, and all the while espouses the virtues of non-d...

from LorenIpsum

I knew embarrassingly little about Feynman the scientist when I picked up this book; having now read it, I remain woefully ignorant. But I *did* learn something about Feynman the man: I don't much care for him. The book is divided into about forty autobiographical anecdotes. Most of them are quic...

from reading_fox

Sort of autobiogrpahy of the life of the famous physicist. Doesn't actually contain much science at all, mostly it s justa series of tales of what he was doing besides science throughout his life. It is an intersting cultural snapshot of life in the US through the mid 1900s. Richard had a curiosu...