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The pleasure of finding things out : the best short works of Richard P. Feynman / Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c1999.Description: xvi, 270 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780465023950 (paperback)
  • 0465023959 (paperback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Q171 .F496 1999
Contents:
The pleasure of finding things out -- Computing machines in the future -- Los Alamos from below -- What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -- There's plenty of room at the bottom -- The value of science -- Richard P. Feynman's minority report to the space shuttle Challenger inquiry -- What is science? -- The smartest man in the world -- Cargo cult science: some remarks on science, pseudoscience, and learning how to not fool yourself -- It's as simple as one, two, three -- Richard Feynman builds a universe -- The relation of science and religion.
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Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1999.

Includes index.

The pleasure of finding things out -- Computing machines in the future -- Los Alamos from below -- What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -- There's plenty of room at the bottom -- The value of science -- Richard P. Feynman's minority report to the space shuttle Challenger inquiry -- What is science? -- The smartest man in the world -- Cargo cult science: some remarks on science, pseudoscience, and learning how to not fool yourself -- It's as simple as one, two, three -- Richard Feynman builds a universe -- The relation of science and religion.

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