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“A storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain. Feynman proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time.”
- K. C. Cole, New York Times Book Review

“Quintessential Feynman―funny, brilliant, bawdy…enormously entertaining.”
- The New Yorker

“Books like this are temptations―to give up reading and devote life to rereading…The book is a litmus paper: anyone who can read it without laughing out loud is bad crazy.”
- Los Angeles Times Book Review

“A chain reaction is not a bad analogy for Feynman’s life. From a critical mass of gray matter it goes off in all directions, producing both heat and light.”
- Time

“Feynman is legendary among his colleagues for his brilliance and his eccentricity…It’s not hard to smile all the way through.”
- Newsweek

Chapter Page
Introduction 11
Introduction to the Previous Edition 13
Vitals 15
Part 1 From Far Rockaway to MIT
He Fixes Radios by Thinking! 21
String Beans 32
Who Stole the Door? 37
Latin or Italian? 49
Always Trying to Escape 52
The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation 61
Part 2 The Princeton Years
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" 71
MEEEEEEEEEEE! 78
A Map of the Cat? 82
Monster Minds 91
Mixing Paints 96
A Different Box of Tools 99
Mindreaders 103
The Amateur Scientist 106
Part 3 Feynman, the Bomb, and the Military
Fizzled Fuses 117
Testing Bloodhounds 123
Los Alamos From Below 126
Safecracker Meets Safecracker 159
Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You! 180
Part 4 From Cornell to Caltech, With a Touch of Brazil
The Dignified Professor 191
Any Questions? 202
I Want My Dollar! 208
You Just Ask Them? 212
Lucky Numbers 221
O Americano, Outra Vez! 228
Man of a Thousand Tongues 250
Certainly, Mr. Big! 251
An Offer You Must Refuse 264
Part 5 The World of One Physicist
Would You Solve the Dirac Equation? 273
The 7 Percent Solution 284
Thirteen Times 294
It Sounds Greek to Me! 296
But is it Art? 298
Is Electricity Fire? 318
Judging Books by their Covers 327
Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake 343
Bringing Culture to the Physicists 354
Found Out in Paris 360
Altered States 373
Cargo Cult Science 382
Index 393

One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest).

Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that “can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist” (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets―and much more of an eyebrow-raising nature. In his stories, Feynman’s life shines through in all its eccentric glory―a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah.

Included for this edition is a new introduction by Bill Gates.