标题: 《Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! 》作者：- Feynman_ Richard 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-27 07:43 标题: 《Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! 》作者：- Feynman_ Richard 【EPUB】 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! By Feynman, Richard Introduction I hope these won’t be the only memoirs of Richard Feynman. Certainly the reminiscences here give a true picture of much of his character–his almost compulsive need to solve puzzles, his provocative mischievousness, his indignant impatience with pretension and hypocrisy, and his talent for one-upping anybody who tries to one-up him! This book is great reading: outrageous, shocking, still warm and very human. For all that, it only skirts the keystone of his life: science. We see it here and there, as background material in one sketch or another, but never as the focus of his existence, which generations of his students and colleagues know it to be. Perhaps nothing else is possible. There may be no way to construct such a series of delightful stories about himself and his work: the challenge and frustration, the excitement that caps insight, the deep pleasure of scientific understanding that has been the wellspring of happiness in his life. I remember when I was his student how it was when you walked into one of his lectures. He would be standing in front of the hall smiling at us all as we came in, his fingers tapping out a complicated rhythm