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The Quotable Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
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Description for The Quotable Feynman
Hardback. Editor(s): Feynman, Michelle. Num Pages: 432 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 138 x 186 x 38. Weight in Grams: 424.
Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. --Richard P. Feynman Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-88) was that rarest of creatures--a towering scientific genius who could make himself understood by anyone and who became as famous for the wit and wisdom of his popular lectures and writings as for his fundamental contributions to science. The Quotable Feynman is a treasure-trove of this revered and beloved scientist's most profound, provocative, humorous, ... Read more
Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. --Richard P. Feynman Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-88) was that rarest of creatures--a towering scientific genius who could make himself understood by anyone and who became as famous for the wit and wisdom of his popular lectures and writings as for his fundamental contributions to science. The Quotable Feynman is a treasure-trove of this revered and beloved scientist's most profound, provocative, humorous, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691153032
SKU
V9780691153032
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About Richard P. Feynman
Michelle Feynman, the daughter of Richard P. Feynman, is the editor of Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman (Basic) and The Art of Richard P. Feynman: Images by a Curious Character. She lives in Altadena, California.
Reviews for The Quotable Feynman
Feynman's depth and zing leap from the page.
Nature [Richard Feynman] combined scientific genius with regular-guy language... Now his daughter, Michelle Feynman
born three years after he received the Nobel in 1965
has edited a collection of quotes from his voluminous output of books, lectures, essays, articles and scientific papers.
Washington Post So much has been said by and about ... Read more
Nature [Richard Feynman] combined scientific genius with regular-guy language... Now his daughter, Michelle Feynman
born three years after he received the Nobel in 1965
has edited a collection of quotes from his voluminous output of books, lectures, essays, articles and scientific papers.
Washington Post So much has been said by and about ... Read more