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fireballs619  ·  3832 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Books that have shaken your perspective

"Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" convinced me to study physics. Now, I have no delusions of grandeur and thjnk I will be the next Feynman or anything, but this book did show me what physicists actually do. Before I had always thought they were a serious bunch or antisocial or unemployable, but reading about his exploits showed me that what you study has little bearing on how you comport yourself in the rest of your life.