10 Books That Anyone Who Cares About Science Needs to Read
5. Genius: The Life And Science Of Richard Feynman - James Gleick
Maybe thats why young people make success. They dont know enough. Because when you know enough its obvious that every idea that you have is no good. - James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman As a junior, this person was involved in The Manhattan Project. Then later in life, he built the theory of quantum electrodynamics which culminated in the beginnings of quantum computing and nanotechnology. The biography of none other than the Father of Modern Physics, Richard Feynman, happens to be a particularly interesting one. Genius: The Life of Science of Richard Feynman documents just about every step of his scientific and cultural legacy. Whether it be pulling apart radios in his homemade lab as a child, or taking LSD in Caltech and using a topless bar as place to compute complex mathematical equations. Richard Feynman was somehow as normal as me or you, but in the most strange and peculiar way possible. Knowing that the brilliant men and women who shaped our world still made mistakes and had problems with love, anger and life makes them seem much more human and relate-able. Genius does exactly what it says on the tin by painting an exquisite portrait of what is it to be just that, Genius.
