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 The Meaning of It All - Richard Feynman
Description: ISBN 0140276351 / Author: Richard P. Feynman / Genre: Politics / Society / Philosophy / This text presents three recently discovered ... more  The Meaning of It All - Richard Feynman ... public lectures from the 60s in which Feynman addresses a non-scientific audience. Feynman attempts to engage an audience with the questions that most inspired and troubled him. Beginning by asking what is the value of science, Feynman goes on to address various related questions: can scientific views be reconciled with religious beliefs? Why in this supposedly scientific age is there such widespread fascination with flying saucers, astrology and martian invasions? How does the media betray the public? What is the value of doubt?Newest Review: ... is science? The word is usually used to mean one of three things, or a mixture of them...Science means, sometimes, a special ... more ... method of finding things out. Sometimes it means the body of knowledge arising from the things found out. It may also mean the new things that you can do when you have found something out, or the actual doing of new things. This last field is usually called technology..."
He goes on to discuss the 'good' or 'evil' of science (and technology), and concludes that science itself is neither good nor evil - it is the application that can be either. As Feynman relates, a Buddhist monk said, "'to every ...more |
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The Meaning of It All - Richard Feynman: Forty Two? (2432 words)
by mattygroves10 - written on 27/10/05 (Very useful, 187 readings)
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Well...maybe not. But Richard Feynman does try to work out The Meaning of It All... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Recap ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For those of you unfamiliar with this fascinating man, Richard Feyman was a Nobel Prize winning Physicist. He shared the prize in 1965, having worked on the theory (and, to a large extent, rebuilt it) of quantum electrodynamics. Feynman didn't just stick to physics. He was a true polymath, who dabbled in bongo drumming, biology, painting and safecracking. He was also a bit of a philosopher, and certainly a thinker, as the Danz Lectures he gave in 1963, re-printed for this slim ...
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