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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
1999 hardcover edition
AuthorCarl Feynman, Michelle Feynman
Cover artistBruce W. Bond
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBiography
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherPerseus Books (USA)
Publication date
July, 1999 (USA)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages270 pp
ISBN0-7382-0108-1
OCLC42564066
Dewey Decimal
500 21
LC ClassQ171 .F385 1999

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a collection of short works from American physicist Richard Feynman, including interviews, speeches, lectures, and printed articles. Among these is his famous 1959 lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", his report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and his speech on scientific integrity in which he coined the term "cargo cult science". The original foreword was written by Freeman Dyson.[citation needed]

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