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An intimate, crackling conversation with a brilliant mind who found the universe endlessly, joyfully amusing. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track.
- intellectually stimulating
- warm
- inspiring
- playful
- 01
No Ordinary Genius
Richard Phillips Feynman
An infectious, visually rich celebration of a mind that refused to take the universe—or itself—too seriously.
- 02
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard Phillips Feynman · 2000
A joyful, conversational masterclass in how to look at the world with relentless, unpretentious curiosity.
- 03
The Character of Physical Law
Richard P Feynman · 2004
A brilliant, conversational tour through the fundamental laws of the universe that makes you feel like you are sitting in the front row of a masterclass.
- 04
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Ralph Leighton
A brilliant, bittersweet exploration of love, curiosity, and the relentless pursuit of truth.
- 05
Genius
James Gleick · 1992
An exhilarating journey into the mind of a brilliant, bongo-playing iconoclast who saw the universe differently than anyone else.
- 06
The Meaning of It All
Richard P. Feynman
Sitting in a lecture hall with a brilliant, eccentric professor who has decided to scrap the syllabus and just talk about life.
- 07
The strangest man
Graham Farmelo
An illuminating journey into the brilliant, contradictory mind of one of modern science's most enigmatic figures.
- 08
For the Love of Physics
Walter Lewin
A passionate, eye-opening masterclass that transforms the mundane world into a playground of scientific wonder.
- 09
Letters of note
Shaun Usher
An intimate, voyeuristic stroll through centuries of human connection, captured in the private correspondence of the famous and the forgotten.
- 10
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
An expansive, illuminating journey into the rebellious mind of a man who unlocked the universe while struggling with the gravity of his own human life.
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Isaac Newton
James Gleick · 2003
An elegant, atmospheric plunge into the obsessive and brilliant mind that dragged humanity out of the dark ages and into the light of modern physics.
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A beautiful question
Frank Wilczek
A mind-shifting voyage through the deep logic of the universe, revealing the profound harmony where science and art converge.
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