Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

James Gleick

Knowledge was rarer then. A secondhand magazine was an occasion… Each book Richard possessed burned itself into his memory… Knowledge was scarce and therefore dear.

Wonderful read on the source of Richard Feynman’s genius and how the precious scarcity of knowledge imbued one of humanity’s most beloved minds with “the pleasure of finding things out":

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)

Richard P. Feynman

“The size of the universe is very impressive, with us on a tiny particle whirling around the sun, among a hundred thousand million suns in this galaxy, itself among a billion galaxies… Man is a latecomer in a vast evolving drama; can the rest be but a scaffolding for his creation?”

Richard Feynman on the eternal friction between science and religion:

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

Richard P. Feynman

The beautiful and frightening experience of how science is done – Richard Feynman’s letter of encouragement to James Watson, a manifesto for the messiness of science and the value of subjectivity

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)

Richard P. Feynman

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”

Richard Feynman on good, evil, and the Zen of science, plus his beautiful prose poem for the glory of evolution:

The Art of Richard P. Feynman: Images by a Curious Character

Richard Feynman, artist? You bet! The beloved physicist’s little-known sketches and drawings, most of nudes: