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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
Trước khi đọc cứ ngỡ sẽ nghe được nghe Feynman giải thích về mọi thứ bằng ngôn ngôn ngữ của chính ông, đặc biệt là Vật lý. Nhưng không, nội dung không đi sâu vào giải thích điều mình mong đợi thay vào đó là nói về tôn giáo, trực quan,...vv.
Khá thất vọng và cũng bởi lời dịch không được hay cho lắm, đọc cảm thấy khó hiểu.
Lẽ ra 1 sao nhưng vớt lại được phần sau phụ lục nói về các câu chuyện nhỏ khá thú vị.
Khá thất vọng và cũng bởi lời dịch không được hay cho lắm, đọc cảm thấy khó hiểu.
Lẽ ra 1 sao nhưng vớt lại được phần sau phụ lục nói về các câu chuyện nhỏ khá thú vị.
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
Review of the audiobook published by Blackstone audio:
It feels strange giving a 3* rating to a Feynman book, but hey, I have good reasons for it.. Feynman himself says in this book not to take anyone's word as gospel, so there! This book is a collection of 3 lectures Feynman gave at some point in his life. According to Wikipedia, Feynman didn't really want his 3 talks published, and having read this, I suspect he didn't think highly of the quality of the content he came up with either..
First off, the title of this book is enormously misleading. Feynman talks things non-physics, but a more apt title would have been "Some random musings on religion, USSR, politics, and miscellaneous topics." A title "Meaning of it all" carries with it a certain weight of expectation - I expected this to be Feynman's take on the meaning of life, universe and all in it; so you can imagine my disappointment in what I got - which ended up being a lot of meandering thoughts, a good chunk of which was anti-communist "rant" for lack of a better word.
That is not to say there isn't goodness in these lectures - brilliance shines through once in a while; and I will include the pieces that stood out to me below.
1) There is a very logical discussion on religion in the 2nd chapter. Feynman characterizes the role of religion as 3 fold historically: Metaphysical, guidance on values, and providing inspiration. Metaphysical is essentially the idea of "world was made by God, humans are precious to God, God looks after humans etc." With the advent of science, this historical role religion played has been largely undermined. But science cannot guide on values (it can only tell you what can happen, whether that is something desirable or not is outside its purview) or provide inspiration (the sense of meaning in living life the way it is meant to be or the feeling of purpose) - religion can; and it (minus the metaphysical aspect of it) can thus form a coherent belief system with science. The challenge is this: Taking religion as the guide for values & the inspiration on how to live the righteous life is rooted in its Metaphysicality i.e. God created the universe & looks after me, so I live life by the values guided by (Him) and I have a purpose provided by that. Eroding the metaphysical foundation of religion (which science has done) brings up the question of: "How do I know this is right?" and invariably ends up shaking the foundation of religion. Feynman leaves this question unresolved with an "I don't know", having shared his logical, well-formulated thoughts.
2) There is a discussion in the 3rd chapter about unscientific human tendencies including a tendency for "wisdom after the fact". Feynman shares the story of how a watch he bought for his wife stopped at the same time she died. We tend to associate deeper meaning to such events, without asking "how many times had the watch stopped and she did not die", and the sensitivity of the mechanical structure of the watch to being touched etc. This story gave me pause on many things we trust as instinct based on past experience..
Barring some of these brilliant vignettes, this book is unfortunately one that commits the sin of "overpromise and underdeliver." Ok to miss.
It feels strange giving a 3* rating to a Feynman book, but hey, I have good reasons for it.. Feynman himself says in this book not to take anyone's word as gospel, so there! This book is a collection of 3 lectures Feynman gave at some point in his life. According to Wikipedia, Feynman didn't really want his 3 talks published, and having read this, I suspect he didn't think highly of the quality of the content he came up with either..
First off, the title of this book is enormously misleading. Feynman talks things non-physics, but a more apt title would have been "Some random musings on religion, USSR, politics, and miscellaneous topics." A title "Meaning of it all" carries with it a certain weight of expectation - I expected this to be Feynman's take on the meaning of life, universe and all in it; so you can imagine my disappointment in what I got - which ended up being a lot of meandering thoughts, a good chunk of which was anti-communist "rant" for lack of a better word.
That is not to say there isn't goodness in these lectures - brilliance shines through once in a while; and I will include the pieces that stood out to me below.
1) There is a very logical discussion on religion in the 2nd chapter. Feynman characterizes the role of religion as 3 fold historically: Metaphysical, guidance on values, and providing inspiration. Metaphysical is essentially the idea of "world was made by God, humans are precious to God, God looks after humans etc." With the advent of science, this historical role religion played has been largely undermined. But science cannot guide on values (it can only tell you what can happen, whether that is something desirable or not is outside its purview) or provide inspiration (the sense of meaning in living life the way it is meant to be or the feeling of purpose) - religion can; and it (minus the metaphysical aspect of it) can thus form a coherent belief system with science. The challenge is this: Taking religion as the guide for values & the inspiration on how to live the righteous life is rooted in its Metaphysicality i.e. God created the universe & looks after me, so I live life by the values guided by (Him) and I have a purpose provided by that. Eroding the metaphysical foundation of religion (which science has done) brings up the question of: "How do I know this is right?" and invariably ends up shaking the foundation of religion. Feynman leaves this question unresolved with an "I don't know", having shared his logical, well-formulated thoughts.
2) There is a discussion in the 3rd chapter about unscientific human tendencies including a tendency for "wisdom after the fact". Feynman shares the story of how a watch he bought for his wife stopped at the same time she died. We tend to associate deeper meaning to such events, without asking "how many times had the watch stopped and she did not die", and the sensitivity of the mechanical structure of the watch to being touched etc. This story gave me pause on many things we trust as instinct based on past experience..
Barring some of these brilliant vignettes, this book is unfortunately one that commits the sin of "overpromise and underdeliver." Ok to miss.
He's a smart guy who doesn't toe the line and thinks well when it comes to common sensey kinds of things, but not deeper philosophical things, which he tends to dismiss out of hand. A short read.
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
slow-paced
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
The fact that these are (presumably) unedited lecture transcripts is both good and bad, I guess.
Being the first set of lectures I've read of Dr. Richard P. Feynman, this book really did give me a taste of how multifaceted Dr. Feynman was apart from being an absolutely brilliant physicist and teacher! I'm looking forward to reading more of his works (especially Q.E.D.: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman).
It was a slow read for me because I needed more time to fully soak in his ideas and also formulate my own opinions on them. Out of all the three lectures, I enjoyed the first one titled The Uncertainty of Science the most. It was full of simple lines that made me smile! All the lectures had some really great ideas, including some that surprisingly hold true even now, more than half a century later! In fact, few statements were strikingly relevant to the present COVID-19 pandemic.
Overall, it was a very satisfying read and I am highly grateful to my Physics teacher for recommending it to me!
It was a slow read for me because I needed more time to fully soak in his ideas and also formulate my own opinions on them. Out of all the three lectures, I enjoyed the first one titled The Uncertainty of Science the most. It was full of simple lines that made me smile! All the lectures had some really great ideas, including some that surprisingly hold true even now, more than half a century later! In fact, few statements were strikingly relevant to the present COVID-19 pandemic.
Overall, it was a very satisfying read and I am highly grateful to my Physics teacher for recommending it to me!
"...it is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."