Mara's review
The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books) by Richard P. Feynman
This is mostly a book of essays by Feynman on a number of different subjects, and less the personal stories that have exemplified his other books, but with a mind as quick and witty as his, they're as pleasurable as his adventures. Again, my only grumpiness is with his adamantly irrational atheism--he points out how rightly impossible it is for us to fully understand how the universe works and then uses that as a reason why God must NOT exist, which doesn't really strike me as scientifically rigorous for a guy who won the Nobel Prize.
Reminds me of a Star Trek:TNG episode I saw recently where the Enterprise crew end up on a planet with rudimentary techonology, the inhabitants of which mistake the Captain for, you know, the BIG GUY. Crew members go on to point out to the silly rubes just how irrational it is to believe in an all-powerful being who conducts their lives. I think that the episode following that one was the one where Q appears and whisks the Enterprise off to be squashe...more
Reminds me of a Star Trek:TNG episode I saw recently where the Enterprise crew end up on a planet with rudimentary techonology, the inhabitants of which mistake the Captain for, you know, the BIG GUY. Crew members go on to point out to the silly rubes just how irrational it is to believe in an all-powerful being who conducts their lives. I think that the episode following that one was the one where Q appears and whisks the Enterprise off to be squashe...more
