Richard P. Feynman

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May 11, 1918 in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, The United States

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February 15, 1988

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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime and after his death, Feynman became one of the most publicly...more

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Average rating: 4.27 · 33,216 ratings · 1,962 reviews · 65 distinct works

	Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! 4.30 avg rating — 16,806 ratings — published 1985 — 46 editions	My rating:
	What Do You Care What Other People Think? 4.26 avg rating — 3,960 ratings — published 1988 — 37 editions	My rating:
	Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher 4.15 avg rating — 2,956 ratings — published 1963 — 23 editions	My rating:
	QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter 4.20 avg rating — 2,012 ratings — published 1985 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books) by Richard P. Feynman, Jeffrey Robbins, Freeman Dyson (foreword) 4.21 avg rating — 1,918 ratings — published 1999 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew L. Sands 4.56 avg rating — 1,180 ratings — published 1964 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist 3.98 avg rating — 1,024 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time by Richard P. Feynman, Roger Penrose (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 823 ratings — published 1963 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman, James Gleick (Introduction) 4.21 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman, Michelle Feynman 4.10 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	My rating:

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“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
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