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The Best Short Works o fRichard P. Feynman

by Richard P. Feynman Edited byJeffry Robbins

Foreword by Freeman Dyson

H elix Bo o k s PERSEUS BOOKS

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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other books by Richard P. Feynman

The Character o f Physical Law Elementary Particles a n d the Laws o fPhysics:

The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures (with Steven Weinberg) Feynman Lectures on Physics (with Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands) Lectures on Com putation (edited by Anthony J. G. Hey and Robin Allen)

Lectures on Gravitation (with Fernando B. Morinigo and William G. Wagner; edited by Brian Hatfield)

The M eaning o fIt All: Thoughts o fa Citizen-Scientist Photon-Hadron Interactions

Q E D : The Strange Theory o f Light and M atter Quantum Electrodynamics

Q uantum Mechanics and Path Integrals (with A. R. Hibbs)

S ix Easy Pieces: Essentials o fPhysics Explained by Its M o st Brilliant Teacher S ix Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, a n d Space-Time Statistical Mechanics: A Set ofLectures Surely You'reJoking Mr. Feynman! Adventures o f a Curious Character The Theory o fFundam ental Processes W hat Do You Care W h a t Other People Think ? Further Adventures o f a Curious Character

Contents

Foreword by Freeman Dyson

ix

Editor's Introduction

XV

1 The Pleasure ofFinding Things Out

1

2 Computing Machines in the Future

27

3 Los Alamosfrom Below

53

4 What Is and What Should Be the Role

ofScientific Culture in Modern Society

97

5 There's Plenty ofRoom at the Bottom

117

6 The Value ofScience

141

7 RichardP. Feynman's Minority Report to the

Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry

151

8 What Is Science?

171

9 The Smartest Man in the World

189

10 Cargo Cult Science: Some Remarks on Science,

Pseudoscience, and Learning How to

Not Fool Yourself

205

11 It's as Simple as One, Two, Three

217

12 RichardFeynman Builds a Universe

225

13 The Relation ofScience and Religion

245

Acknowledgments

259

Index

261

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