The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

Author:   Richard Feynman ,  Raymond Todd
Publisher:   Blackstone Audiobooks
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9781433201721


Pages:   3
Publication Date:   01 August 2007
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him--how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day. In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play such a crucial role in the scientific imagination? Is this really a scientific age? What explains our universal fascination with flying saucers, faith healing, and telepathy? Marked by Feynman's characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures provide an intimate glimpse at the man behind the legend. At the start of his final lecture he says, I dedicate this lecture to showing what ridiculous conclusions and rare statements such a man as myself can make. Rare, perhaps, and irreverent, sure. But ridiculous? Not even close. This is quintessential Feynman--reflective, amusing, and ever enlightening.

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Author:   Richard Feynman ,  Raymond Todd
Publisher:   Blackstone Audiobooks
Imprint:   Blackstone Audiobooks
Dimensions:   Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 14.90cm
Weight:   0.118kg
ISBN:  

9781433201721


ISBN 10:   1433201720
Pages:   3
Publication Date:   01 August 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) earned a BS from MIT and a PhD from Princeton. From 1942 to 1945, he assisted with the development of the atomic bomb. He then taught at Cornell and Caltech, where he contributed to the theories of superfluidity and quarks. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics. Raymond Todd is an actor and director in the theater as well as a poet and documentary filmmaker. He plays jazz trombone for the Leatherstocking quartet, an ensemble that gets its name from one of his favorite Blackstone narrations, The Deerslayer. Todd lives in New York.

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