Surely you're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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Feynman, Richard P. (1987). Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34000-4.

Ask yourself - what's in your box of tools? How is it different to everybody else's? What can yours fix that nobody else can? If it's no different to anyone else's, what are you doing to improve it?Miller, Anthony (March 13, 2013). "Big Bang Theory: Sheldon's Top 5 Moments". Los Angeles Magazine . Retrieved June 10, 2023. Johnson, George (July 2001). "The Jaguar and the Fox". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019 . Retrieved July 16, 2016. Cosmology: Math Plus Mach Equals Far-Out Gravity". Time. June 26, 1964. Archived from the original on December 13, 2011 . Retrieved August 7, 2010. USPS – The 2005 Commemorative Stamp Program". December 2, 2004. Archived from the original on December 30, 2006. Gribbin, John; Gribbin, Mary (1997). Richard Feynman: A Life in Science. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-94124-X. OCLC 636838499.

Mlodinow, Leonard (2003). Feynman's Rainbow: A Search For Beauty In Physics And In Life. New York: Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-69251-4. Published in the United Kingdom as Some Time With Feynman Best Nonfiction". Modern Library. Archived from the original on August 25, 2012 . Retrieved November 12, 2016. Sands, Matthew (April 1, 2005). "Capturing the Wisdom of Feynman". Physics Today. 58 (4): 49–55. Bibcode: 2005PhT....58d..49S. doi: 10.1063/1.1955479. ISSN 0031-9228. Goldberg, Lesley (September 26, 2012). "William Hurt to Star in Science Channel/BBC Challenger Docu-Drama (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved June 10, 2023. Feynman spends a whole chapter talking about Japan and how wonderful the country is, but not once does he mention the bomb, ask about it, tells you about being asked about it, or make any visit to Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Left wondering what his thoughts were on the topic. Teach What You Know

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In the early 1960s, Feynman acceded to a request to "spruce up" the teaching of undergraduates at the California Institute of Technology, also called Caltech. After three years devoted to the task, he produced a series of lectures that later became The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Accounts vary about how successful the original lectures were. Feynman's own preface, written just after an exam on which the students did poorly, was somewhat pessimistic. His colleagues David L. Goodstein and Gerry Neugebauer said later that the intended audience of first-year students found the material intimidating while older students and faculty found it inspirational, so the lecture hall remained full even as the first-year students dropped away. In contrast, physicist Matthew Sands recalled the student attendance as being typical for a large lecture course. [157] Hu, Jane C. (September 19, 2018). "Replacing names in science after #MeToo". Quartzy . Retrieved June 10, 2023. During a televised hearing, Feynman demonstrated that the material used in the shuttle's O-rings became less resilient in cold weather by compressing a sample of the material in a clamp and immersing it in ice-cold water. [179] The commission ultimately determined that the disaster was caused by the primary O-ring not properly sealing in unusually cold weather at Cape Canaveral. [180] Oral history interview transcript with Richard Feynman on 27 June 1966, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives – Session III Feynman, Richard P. (1960). "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom". Engineering and Science. 23 (5): 22–36.

Cohen, M.; Feynman, Richard P. (1957). "Theory of Inelastic Scattering of Cold Neutrons from Liquid Helium". Physical Review. 107 (1): 13–24. Bibcode: 1957PhRv..107...13C. doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.107.13. Archived from the original on September 14, 2020 . Retrieved May 20, 2019. I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. It's difficult to describe because it's an emotion. It's analogous to the feeling one has in religion that has to do with a god that controls everything in the whole universe: there's a generality aspect that you feel when you think about how things that appear so different and behave so differently are all run "behind the scenes" by the same organization, the same physical laws. It's an appreciation of the mathematical beauty of nature, of how she works inside; a realization that the phenomena we see result from the complexity of the inner workings between atoms; a feeling of how dramatic and wonderful it is. It's a feeling of awe — of scientific awe — which I felt could be communicated through a drawing to someone who had also had this emotion. It could remind him, for a moment, of this feeling about the glories of the universe.”Feynman, Richard (1974). "Cargo Cult Science" (PDF). Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-12-01 . Retrieved 2021-02-19– via calteches.library.caltech.edu. On the contrary," I answered. "It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance--gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood--so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!" The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details". National Science Foundation. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019 . Retrieved July 15, 2016.