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I’m an explorer, OK? I like to find out!” -- One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. It was his outsized love for life, however, that earned him the status of an American cultural icon-here was an extraordinary intellect devoted to the proposition that the thrill of discovery was matched only by the joy of communicating it to others. In this career-spanning collection of letters, many published here for the first time, we are able to see this side of Feynman like never before. Beginning with a short note home in his first days as a graduate student, and ending with a letter to a stranger seeking his advice decades later, __Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track__ covers a dazzling array of topics and themes, scientific developments and personal histories. With missives to and from scientific luminaries, as well as letters to and from fans, family, students, crackpots, as well as everyday people eager for Feynman’s wisd
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- Author
- Richard Phillips Feynman, Michelle Feynman, Timothy Ferris
- Publisher
- Basic Civitas Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780738206363
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Physics
- Rating
- 4.24 / 5 (83 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track : the collected letters of Richard P. Feynman (2005)
- Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track the letters of Richard P. Feynman ; edited and with additional commentary by Michelle Feynman ; foreword b (2005)
- Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track the letters of Richard P. Feynman ; edited and with additional commentary by Michelle Feynman ; foreword b (2006)
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track : The Letters of Richard P. Feynman (2005)
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman (2021) (2021)
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