## 🧑‍🏫 Bio
Birthday:: May 11, 1918
Company-Department:: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Theoretical Physics
Live-in:: Pasadena, California, USA (later years)
Hometown:: Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, USA
Hobbies:: Playing bongo drums, drawing, safe-cracking, experimenting with physics, storytelling
Like:: Solving complex problems, teaching, humor, thinking creatively
Dislike:: Bureaucracy, pretentiousness, dogmatic thinking
Wish:: To understand nature’s laws at a deep level and communicate scientific ideas effectively
Worry or Fear:: Fear of stagnation in creativity or scientific understanding
Family:: Father - Melville Feynman, Mother - Lucille Feynman, Sister - Joan Feynman, Spouses - Arline Greenbaum, Mary Louise Bell, Gweneth Howarth, Children - Carl Feynman, Michelle Feynman
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## đź“š Books
| **Book Title** | **Description** | **Amazon Link** |
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| **"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"** | A collection of humorous and insightful anecdotes from Feynman's life, showcasing his curiosity and unconventional approach to problem-solving. | [View on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman/dp/0393355624/) |
| **"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"** | A sequel to "Surely You're Joking," containing more stories from his life, including his role in investigating the Challenger space shuttle disaster. | [View on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/0393355640/) |
| **"The Feynman Lectures on Physics"** | A comprehensive three-volume set based on his undergraduate lectures at Caltech, covering a broad range of topics in physics. | [View on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-boxed-set/dp/0465023827/) |
| **"Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher"** | Extracted from "The Feynman Lectures," this book provides an accessible introduction to key physics concepts. | [View on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Six-Easy-Pieces-Essentials-Explained/dp/0465025277/) |
| **"Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time"** | A follow-up to "Six Easy Pieces," exploring more advanced topics such as Einstein’s theory of relativity. | [View on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Six-Not-So-Easy-Pieces-Relativity-Symmetry/dp/0465025269/) |
| **"The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"** | A collection of interviews and lectures that highlight Feynman's enthusiasm for science, learning, and discovery. | [View on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Finding-Things-Out-Collection/dp/0465023959/) |
| **"QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter"** | A popular science book explaining quantum electrodynamics, written in an approachable manner for non-physicists. | [View on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/0691024170/) |
| **"Feynman's Tips on Physics"** | A supplemental guide to "The Feynman Lectures," offering insights and tips on studying physics. | [View on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Feynmans-Tips-Physics-Reflections-Problem-Solving/dp/0465027977/) |
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## 🍎 Inspired
- [[Feynman technique]]
## 🗒️Quotes
_“You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You’ll only know about humans in different places, and what they call the bird… I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”_
_“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here. I don’t have to know an answer.”_
_“I think for lesson number one, to learn a mystic formula for answering questions is very bad.”_
_“In this age of specialization men who thoroughly know one field are often incompetent to discuss another. The great problems of the relations between one and another aspect of human activity have for this reason been discussed less and less in public.”_
_“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”_
_“The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to… No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”_
_“There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]… It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind of leaning over_ backwards_.”_
_“I don’t like honors…I’ve already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.”_
_“The only way to have real success in science, the field I’m familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must try to explain what’s good and what’s bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty.”_