The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist Audiobook (Free)

Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman’s efforts to twentieth-century physics, but few understand how engaged he was using the world around him-how deeply and thoughtfully he regarded as the religious, politics, and social problems of his day time. In this assortment of lectures that Richard Feynman originally offered in 1963, unpublished during his life time, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega queries of science. What is the nature of the tension between research and religious beliefs? Why does doubt play such a crucial role in the technological imagination? Is normally this really a scientific age group? What points out our universal desire for flying saucers, faith healing, and telepathy?

Marked by Feynman’s characteristic combination of rationality and humor, these lectures offer an close glimpse at the man behind the legend. At the start of his last lecture he says, “I dedicate this lecture to showing what absurd conclusions and uncommon statements such a man as myself can make.” Rare, perhaps, and irreverent, sure. But absurd? Not close.

This is quintessential Feynman-reflective, amusing, and ever enlightening.