Talk:The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Rationale in creating this page
I created this page simply because I saw a red link to this book on the page about Richard Feynman indicating it was not yet created. While not a seminal work like Six Easy Pieces, I believe this most likely qualifies as a notable work. It contains some of his most famous material: A transcription of his report on the Challenger disaster, which is culturally significant, and There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom which is oft-cited in regards to nanotechnology. In addition, a Google search shows that a few Wikipedia articles use this book as a reference

I did my best to create the initial stub for this book. I've never created a book article before, so I'm not totally clear on what all should go into the infobox. I copied the information from the inside cover of my own copy of the book, cross-referenced one or two bits from this book's Amazon page

For the page content, I modeled it after existing pages: The layout and wording after What Do You Care What Other People Think?, and a few claims (such as "famous lecture") from the respective articles (Cargo cult science and, again, There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom) - TheBilly (talk) 22:32, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks like a good start--you're right that this book should be included on Wikipedia. Thanks for getting it set up!  --pie4all88 (talk) 06:11, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

What about the TV autobiography?
There is a ~50 min TV autobiography which is Feynman talking (seemingly in response to questions that have been edited out) about his childhood, his career, his perspective on learning and knowing, his distaste for uniforms and position, and some thoughts on physics at the atomic and subatomic level. In between questions, there are some photos from his life.

It's unclear to me whether the 1981 TV movie relates to the 1999 book. But I was expecting this article to be about the movie, as I was not aware of the book until now. Since there are two Feynman products with the same name, should they get separate articles, or should they both be included in this single one?

The version I saw was a standalone thing, but versions of it appear to have been broadcast as part of two science series:

Horizon episode:

Nova episode:

24.57.210.141 (talk) 05:06, 23 November 2011 (UTC)