With a unique combination of dazzling intellect and touching simplicity, Feynman had a passion for physics that was merely the Nobel Prize-winning part of an immense love of life and everything it could offer. He was hugely irreverent and always completely honest―with himself, with his colleagues, and with nature.
No Ordinary Genius traces Feynman's remarkable adventures inside...
With a unique combination of dazzling intellect and touching simplicity, Feynman had a passion for physics that was merely the Nobel Prize-winning part of an immense love of life and everything it could offer. He was hugely irreverent and always completely honest―with himself, with his colleagues, and with nature.
No Ordinary Genius traces Feynman's remarkable adventures inside and outside science, in words and more than one-hundred photographs, many of them supplied by his family and close friends. The words are often his own and those of family, friends, and colleagues such as his sister, Joan Feynman; his children, Carl and Michelle; Freeman Dyson; Hans Bethe; Daniel Hillis; Marvin Minsky; and John Archibald Wheeler. The book gives vivid insight into the mind of a great creative scientist at work and at play, and it challenges the popular myth of the scientist as a cold reductionist dedicated to stripping romance and mystery from the natural world. Feynman's wonderfully infectious enthusiasm shines through in his photographs and in his tales.
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Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was a professor at Cornell University and CalTech and received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. In 1986 he served with distinction on the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
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One thing Richard did, which was probably the hardest, was to be always scrupulously honest with himself. When Richard was bad at something he would say, "I'm bad at that." Or when he wasn't making progress on a problem he'd say, "I'm not making progress." When he came up with a stupid solution to something he'd say, "You know, that's a pretty stupid solution I've come up with." So he wouldn't fool himself into thinking a situation was better than it was, or worse than it was. He would just say, "Okay, these are the facts. It's going to be like this." He wasn't afraid of the facts, and he loved reality, I guess. (查看原文)
If you expect science to give you all the answers to the wonderful questions about what we are, where we are going, and what the meaning of the universe is, then I think you could easily become disillusioned and look for a mystic answer to these problems. How a scientist can want a mystic answer, I don't know. I don't understand that.
The way I think of whwat we're doing is, we're exploring--we're trying to find out as much as we can about the world. People would say to me, "Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?" No, I'm not. I'm just looking to find out more about the world. If it turns out there is a simple, ultimate law which explains everything, so be it; that would be very nice to discover. If it turns out it's like an onion, with millions of layers, and we're sick and tir... (查看原文)
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