What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Further Adventures of a Curious Character

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Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton: What Do You Care What Other People Think? (2011, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)

256 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2011 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W..

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978-0-393-07981-4
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This book is written so wonderfully. You'd never expect such a brilliant mind to write in such an approachable manner. The last chapter on "The Value of Science" is my favourite in the book. Feynman lamented the fact that science really doesn't get it's day in the sun, at least when it comes to artistic endeavours.

This value of science remains unsung by singers; you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age.

Feynman has a terrific existential poem in that last chapter as well and makes some important recommendations on what we as a species are obligated to do.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

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Subjects

  • Feynman, richard p. (richard phillips), 1918-1988
  • Physicists, biography
  • Science, miscellanea