"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Feynman proved that a Nobel Prize-winning physicist could also be the most entertaining memoirist alive — safecracking at Los Alamos, playing bongos in Brazil, outsmarting everyone in the room.
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Why It Matters
Feynman proved that a Nobel Prize-winning physicist could also be the most entertaining memoirist alive — safecracking at Los Alamos, playing bongos in Brazil, outsmarting everyone in the room. The book made science feel like the greatest adventure a curious person could have. It has inspired more people to pursue physics than any textbook ever written.
Notable Quotes
“I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.”
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”