Smart Feynman Narratives from the Funniest Guy in the Room

Surely You are Joking Mr. Feynman!

Can you imagine visiting the experts working on a National Security Top-Secret project and being shown plans of what looks like a building without a clue of what you are really looking at? What would you do if they asked for your opinion? Feynman made up an observation. Then, the experts where both utterly impressed and ashamed that he had caught their flawed spec. Feynman still had no clue what he was pointing at and excused himself.
Later, he received a call from a company asking for his help solving a few problems relating to their attempts at making a fusion powered jet airplane. Baffled, he asked them why they were calling him? They replied "because you wrote the patent". Yes, he had forgotten.
The person best known for his work in the Manhattan Project team and for his Nobel prize in Physics, Mr. Feynman was also a musician, a painter, a jokester, a safe-cracker, and many more things.

Richard P. Feynman

The autobiographic book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!; Adventures of a Curious Character depicts Richard P. Feynman as funny and smart as no one else could be.
This is a fundamentally optimistic book. Feynman loved physics and it shows. If you look at life through an optimistic lens, this book should prove to be very engaging. The man loved to play. For him, it was the best way to go through life.
Today, the news of the Large Hadron Collider bring home the great impact this man had on the theories that are still being tested as the foundations of our universe.
The book was unexpectedly funny.