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Feynman was a brilliant man and quite the character. If you haven't read "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" I highly recommend you give it a read. "The title d
by xfitm3 8y ago
Feynman was a brilliant man and quite the character. If you haven't read "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" I highly recommend you give it a read.
"The title derives from a woman's response at Princeton University when, after she asked the newly arrived Feynman if he wanted cream or lemon in his tea, he absentmindedly requested both."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Feynman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe...!
- saagarjha 8y agoTo be fair, she failed to use an exclusive or ;)
- umvi 8y agoI liked that book and highly recommend it, but... by the end I got the impression that Feynmann was intentionally manufacturing interesting anecdotes in his life, not just randomly having all these interesting crazy coincidences happen to him.
- wycs 8y agoOf course he was manufacturing them. He explicitly talks about the art of having an adventure in the book.
- tfha 8y agoThere's definitely an art to setting yourself up for suprising and interesting adventures in your life.
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- jamesash 8y agoFor a different source, Freeman Dyson's biography, Disturbing the Universe, is extraordinarily worthwhile. He has crazy Feynman stories too, and Dyson is a very sober witness to the bongo-drum-playing, picking-up-hitchhikers, getting-pulled- over-for-speeding Feynman that comes across in the books.