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Richard P. Feynman

Born

in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, The United States

May 11, 1918

Died

February 15, 1988

Genre

Science, Memoir

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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime and after his death, Feynman became one of the most publicly ...more

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Average rating: 4.26 · 364,325 ratings · 15,556 reviews · 242 distinct works • Similar authors

	"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (Contibutor), Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 216,462 ratings — published 1985 — 168 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman, Paul C.W. Davies (Introduction) 4.21 avg rating — 30,692 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton 4.19 avg rating — 30,590 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter 4.27 avg rating — 19,395 ratings — published 1985	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman 4.23 avg rating — 13,516 ratings — published 1999 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist 3.97 avg rating — 11,075 ratings — published 1998 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time by Richard P. Feynman, Roger Penrose (Introduction) 4.26 avg rating — 9,422 ratings — published 1963	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands 4.61 avg rating — 8,062 ratings — published 1964 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Character of Physical Law 4.30 avg rating — 7,787 ratings — published 1964 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (from the Beaten Track): The Letters of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman, Michelle Feynman (Editor/Introduction), Timothy Ferris (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 2,743 ratings — published 2004 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Richard P. Feynman (?)

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship

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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

tags: confidence

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August 2023 New School Classics Poll

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, 1994, 386 pages

50 votes, 24.0%

City of Glass by Paul Auster, 1985, 203 pages

47 votes, 22.6%

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, 1942, 461 pages

34 votes, 16.3%

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, 1985, 400 pages.

29 votes, 13.9%

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, 1913, 654 pages

28 votes, 13.5%

Little Big Man by Thomas Berger, 1964, 422 pages

10 votes, 4.8%

William: An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton, 1919, 250 pages

10 votes, 4.8%

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