| | I knew about Feynman from physics. His three-volume set of lectures was famous. Then, he chaired the committee to investigate the Challenger disaster and he became known to a wider audience. When Surely Your're Joking, Mr. Feynman came out, I read it to my daughter as bedtime stories. (It was a bit of a struggle at first -- she smelled a trap -- but the story of him at seven fixing radios caught her.) I read What Do You Care What Other People Think? It was made into a graphic novel. I bought a copy when I worked at the Atomic Energy Museum in Albuquerque (2002), which I sent my daughter who now lives in Miami Beach.
Many other books have been written about Richard Feynman. He is something of a cult figure. Like Carl Sagan, he held many quasi-Objectivist opinions aside from the very Objectivist dedication to science as a method.
After reading Surely You're Joking, my daughter and I worked out a "mind-reading" act, similar to the one his father revealed to him in one of the stories. Knowing how that fakery can get done for an audience made us both believers when we really did read each other's minds...
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.
