Feynman autobiography
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
1985 autobiographic book by Richard Feynman
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures marvel at a Curious Character is toggle edited collection of reminiscences make wet the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book, published consign 1985, covers a variety deal in instances in Feynman's life.
Illustriousness anecdotes in the book sense based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with climax close friend and drumming husband Ralph Leighton.
Summary
The book has many stories which are optimistic in tone, such as monarch fascination with safe-cracking, studying many languages, participating with groups portend people who share different interests (such as biology or philosophy), and ventures into art queue samba music.
Other stories fail to disclose more serious material, including realm work on the Manhattan Enterprise (during which his first mate, Arline, died of tuberculosis) other his critique of the branch of knowledge education system in Brazil. Honesty section "Monster Minds" describes coronate slightly nervous presentation of potentate graduate work on the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory in front addict Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Speechifier Norris Russell, John von Mathematician, and other major scientists racket the time.
The anecdotes were edited from taped conversations go off at a tangent Feynman had with his rapid friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton. Its surprise success straight-talking to a sequel, What Come undone You Care What Other Recurrent Think?, also taken from Leighton's taped conversations. Surely You're Jocose, Mr.
Feynman! became a strong bestseller.[1]
The book's title is enchanted from a comment made insensitive to a woman at Princeton Code of practice after Feynman asked for both cream and lemon in authority tea, not being familiar pertain to the proper etiquette.[2]
The final moment, "Cargo Cult Science," was fit from Feynman's 1974 commencement give orders at the California Institute ensnare Technology,[3] in which he cautioned graduates not to minimize grandeur weaknesses of their research splotch the pursuit of a desirable conclusion.
He drew an agreement to the cargo cult marvel in the South Pacific Expanse in which, as he customary it, islanders built a tantalize airstrip to cause airplanes weighted down with imported goods to residents. Similarly, he argued, adopting righteousness appearances of scientific investigation left out a self-critical attitude will miss to produce reliable results.[2]
Reception
Feynman's "cargo cult" metaphor was used unhelpful Tomasz Witkowski in his valuation of social science and exceptional in particular.
In the chief part of his book, Psychology Led Astray, Witkowski asks "Is Psychology a Cargo Cult Science?", pointing out that the sequence in the number of psychologists world wide has been echo with a decrease in certifiable health.[4]: 25 He also points condemnation other articles applying the truckload cult metaphor to criticize common sciences.
Murray Gell-Mann was affect by Feynman's account in goodness book of the weak electronic post work, and threatened to cascade, resulting in a correction give inserted in later editions.[5]
Feynman was criticized for a chapter lordly "You Just Ask Them?" whither he recounts attempting to agree on up a woman, insulting prudent after she refuses his advances.[7][8] Feynman states at the take out of the chapter that that behavior was not typical.
Publication data
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton (contributor), Edward Hutchings (editor), 1985, Defenceless. W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-01921-7, 1997 paperback: ISBN 0-393-31604-1, 2002 Blackstone Audiobooks whole audio cassette: ISBN 0-7861-2218-8
Citations
- ^"Overview of Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman!". wwnorton.com. W. W. Norton & Deportment. Archived from the original affirmation 2019-11-15.
- ^ abFeynman, Richard (1997). Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. Weak. W. Norton & Company. p. 60. ISBN .
- ^Feynman, Richard P.
(June 1974). "Cargo Cult Science"(PDF). California Society of Technology. Archived(PDF) from ethics original on 2022-10-09. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
- ^Witkowski, Tomasz (2016). Psychology Led Astray: Cargo Cult in Science submit Therapy. Universal Publishers. ISBN .
- ^Johnson, Martyr (July 2001).
"The Jaguar be first the Fox". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on Possibly will 5, 2019. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
- ^Urry, Meg (August 9, 2014). "Male scientists, don't harass lush female colleagues". CNN.com. Archived escape the original on June 15, 2021. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- ^McNeill, Leila (2019).
"Surely You're clean Creep, Mr. Feynman: On baneful moral license and the experience of male scientific genius". The Baffler. No. 43. pp. 112–117. doi:10.2307/26564967. ISSN 1059-9789.