The pleasure of finding things out : the best short works of Richard P. Feynman / by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins ; foreword by Freeman Dyson.

Author: Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.

Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1999.

Descriptionxvi, 270 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:1. The pleasure of finding things out -- 2. Computing machines in the future -- 3. Los Alamos from below -- 4. What is and what should be the role of scientific culture in modern society -- 5. There's plenty of room at the bottom -- 6. The value of science -- 7. Richard P. Feynman's minority report to thte space shuttle Challenger inquiry -- 8. What is science? -- 9. The smartest man in the world -- 10. Cargo cult science: some remarks on science, pseudoscience, and learning how to not fool yourself -- 11. It's as simple as one, two, three -- 12. Richard Feynman builds a universe -- 13. The relation of science and religion.

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