[RightWingAtheist]

Hard to believe this hasn't been posted yet. Also check out Lubos Motl's defense of Feynman, in face of attacks on his character from liberal idealogues.

[American Quilter]

I've never heard of him, but he sure sounds like he'd be worth reading.

[Cboldt]

Feynman ^{bump _bump}

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

hmmmm gonna have to look into getting this book...

[Cicero]

Feynman is great. But his ideas and personality really have nothing to do with Intelligent Design theory.

Please forget I said that, however. I'm going out, and I don't want to call down the knee-jerk Darwinists with their boilerplate arguments onto this thread.

Feynman is too good a guy to deserve that. A lot of people probably saw him on the TV when he solved the riddle of the leaking o-ring after the Apollo accident by dipping a rubber washer into his water glass at the table.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The main reason feminists don't like him wasn't the cop story, it's the chapter in his book (I forget which one) where he describes how he could go into a bar and always leave with a woman to sleeop with, simply by treating her horribly, like she was worthless.

Feynman had a lecture series which made complex science understandable. It included a great set of articles about light wave propagation which had me briefly thinking I understood interference patterns.

[shoptalk]

Great post.

Dr. Feynman was the working man genius who figured out that the low temperatures before the shuttle Challenger disaster were the proximate cause of o-ring failure (gas blowby). As the Morton Thiokol mucky-mucks were dismissively casting aside concerns over viton o-ring resiliency, Feynman had a sample sitting in ice water compressed with a C-clamp he bought at a hardware store before the M/T briefing. Removed from the ice water and unclamped, the o-ring sample failed to spring back to its original diameter. Feynman was the only member of the Rogers Commission to wonder why.

Also, try to view "The Last Journey of a Genius" on PBS (if its ever re-broadcast). Feynman at his best - on the bongos!

[litehaus]

Always enjoyed a talk by by him......Obviously I would have enjoyed Ol' Bertrand Russell too.......And YOU would have enjoyed Feuerbach I suspect.....

[HOYA97]

I had not heard of professor feynman until your post. I just bought both of his books off of Amazon and will read them as soon as I get them.

Thanks for posting this!

[Tax-chick]

My brother loaned me Feynman's books, and a book about him. ("Genius," was it?) Fascinating man. However, I don't think I would have liked him, if I'd met him!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Well, I'm a rightwing Theist, and I still loved Feynman, and I find it amazing that people today don't know who he is.
Feynman was a great purveyor of facts and fascinating to listen to and to read, also.

[SuziQ]

And the one feature Feynman noticed is missing from all cargo-cult science is what he calls “a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to...a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you’re doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid — not only what you think is right about it.”

Is this what you're talking about when you mention something being "Falsifiable"?