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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
by Richard P. Feynman
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."