Many of his stories are laugh out loud saga's and I've found myself many times chuckling on the the train perhaps a little too loud ) Among these are intensely moving stories - we meet Feynman's first wife Arlene who taught him love's irreducible mystery while she lay dying of tuberculosis in hospital, while he worked on the Atomic Bomb at the base nearby. 'What do you care what other people think?' is Feynman's last written legacy, prepared by his lifelong friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Not only this, his ability to tell stories is second to none. One of the greatest physicists of the 20th Century (event 21 if that's allowed), Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, adventure and an unwavering ability to lift the experience of others around him.
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