Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track "I'm an explorer, OK? Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation…
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
"I'm an explorer, OK? Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. I like to find out!" -- One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend.
In this career-spanning collection of letters, many published here for the first time, we are able to see this side of Feynman like never before. It was his outsized love for life, however, that earned him the status of an American cultural icon-here was an extraordinary intellect devoted to the proposition that the thrill of discovery was matched only by the joy of communicating it to others. Beginning with a short note home in his first days as a graduate student, and ending with a letter to a stranger seeking his advice decades later, Perfectly