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Lisa (Harmonybites)
I can't say I loved this--and I wanted and expected to. People whose judgement I respect adored it, and when I was a teen I devoured science books, and here are the memoirs of a Nobel-prize winning physicist who hobnobbed with Einstein and Planck and worked on the Manhattan Project! And the book is supposed to be funny and witty!

Well, maybe the first clue as to why this wasn't for me was on the title page--this is described as being "as told to Ralph Leighton." It's not so much a memoir as a ser
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Sri
Oct 14, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: biography-memoir
Intinya adalah: mempelajari science adalah dengan pemahaman, bukan hafalan. Memutuskan sesuatu adalah setelah mempelajarinya sendiri bukan hanya setelah mendengar apa kata orang. Beliau prihatin dengan orang yang males mikir. Doh, saya memang memprihatinkan :(.

Ada yang bilang buku ini menunjukkan egonya yang besar. Aku tidak melihatnya seperti itu. Kalaupun iya, tidak apa-apa. Dengan kualitasnya yang seperti itu kata orang Jawa cucuk lah. Ora mung waton :D.
Lianna
Apr 16, 2010 marked it as to-read
How did I get through Case without reading anything by this guy?

Mentioned more or less in Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World.
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Michael
Aug 30, 2007 rated it really liked it
Lula
Mar 30, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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Sandra
May 18, 2008 marked it as hillsborough-ill
Amy
Jun 19, 2008 marked it as books-i-own-to-read  ·  review of another edition
Kathy Jo
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Jan 04, 2009 marked it as to-read
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Carrie
Apr 09, 2009 rated it really liked it
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Lorellin
Sep 30, 2018 marked it as to-read-calibre-c  ·  review of another edition
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