Item #1960 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character. Richard . Feynman, as told to Ralph Leighton., Edward Hutchings, hillips.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 350 pages.

First edition of this sharp, irreverent memoir from Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman, whose curiosity ranged from quantum theory to lock-picking, bongo drums, and deciphering ancient scripts. Feynman worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

Drawn from taped conversations late in life, these stories reveal a mind that thrived on mischief, skepticism, and the thrill of discovery.

A cult classic of scientific wit and intellectual play—equal parts autobiography and celebration of the unconventional.

Fine in a fine dust jacket. Red paper over boards with red cloth spine, with spine titled in gilt. Jacket has a short corner crease at bottom of front flap. Original Scribner bookstore $16.95 price tag from December 1984 is on rear panel of jacket (could be cleanly removed but we choose to leave it).

Item #1960
ISBN: 0393019217

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