The Meaning of It All
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| Author | Richard Feynman |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Philosophy of science |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Published | 1998 (Addison-Wesley) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 133 pp. |
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist is a non-fiction book by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. It is a collection of three previously unpublished public lectures given by Feynman in 1963. The book was first published in hardcover in 1998, ten years after Feynman's death, by Addison–Wesley. Several paperback and audiobook editions of the book have subsequently been published.
The Meaning of It All is non-technical book in which Feynman investigates the relationship between science and society.
The Meaning of It All contains three public lectures Richard Feynman gave on the theme "A Scientist Looks at Society" during the John Danz Lecture Series at the University of Washington, Seattle in April 1963. At the time Feynman was already a highly respected physicist who played a big role in laying the groundwork for modern particle physics. Two years later in 1965, Feynman won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga for their work in quantum electrodynamics.
The three lectures were not published at the time, because, despite requests by the University of Washington Press, Feynman did not want them to be printed.The Meaning of It All was published posthumously by Addison–Wesley in 1998, with the lectures having been transcribed "verbatim" from audio recordings.
Apart from numerous scientific papers, Feynman also published The Feynman Lectures on Physics in 1964, which was based on lectures he had given to undergraduate students between 1961 and 1963. Towards the end of his life, he edited two autobiographical books, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, published in 1985 and 1988 respectively.
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