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Summary: Really makes you think about 'The Meaing of It All'
Review: These lectures, while delivered several decades ago, are as relevant and meaningful today as they were when first delivered nearly 40 years ago. Dr. Feynman was a clear and intense thinker, and his perspective on the world is unique, interesting and should prove worthwhile for all readers to consider.
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Summary: If you're uncertain and you know it, clap your hands!
Review: This book is a short and delightful read -- just about anyone could read and enjoy this book (well, certainly anyone who cared to read this review). Feynman has a wonderful ability to illustrate an idea with the minimum number of easy-to-understand words. Further, his illustrations point out the parts and relationships in an idea such that the reader is left with a working understanding. Brilliant!This book covers the nature(s) of science, the value of uncertainty, and some probable reprocussions of these ideas on religious and political beliefs. Painless illumination of these intended topics in the first two discussions leaves the third for an equally enjoyable adventure through some examples of where the principles of science might be better applied to everyday life (a few "Technologies of Uncertainty" perhaps ;-). Read this book, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Notes and Asides
Review: This is a small collection of lectures in which Feynman explores, in non-scientific jargon, such matters as scientific methodology, the interplay of faith and reason, and the importance of doubt or skepticism to a scientist. Though Feynman is a non-believer religiously speaking, he is interested in faith and very respectful of it. As a fan, I do have to agree with Mr. Sinclair below that these lectures do seem hurriedly pulled together. (An editor could not have helped, however, as these are lectures as delivered and are thus original source material.) Though not the stylist we might wish for, Feynman does give us an enjoyable and quick read that gives some insight into of the great scientists of the past century and into some of the important issues we confront in politics, religion and science.
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Summary: Feynman at his best as teacher, scientist, citizen.
Review: This is Richard Feynman for the concerned layman. These three lectures, given in 1963, are Feynman's attempt to elucidate the proper role of science in the issues of the day. The first lecture discusses the value of skepticism and uncertainty in the field of science itself. The second lecture concerns what light the scientific method might shine on religious and political thought. The third, and most interesting, lecture is an extemporaneous talk on the 'unscientific age' of the 1960s. You may be surprised to discover how little things have changed since then. If you are a Feynman fan, or if you are concerned about the proper role of science and critical thinking in society, you will love this book. Well-written, non-technical, entertaining. A brilliant scientist displays a deep and abiding concern for social issues.
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