Cover of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard P. Feynman with Ralph Leighton

Curiosity beats credentials when the mind refuses institutional sleep.

The book is less a memoir than a demonstration of anti-bureaucratic intelligence. It matters because Feynman shows how a mind stays alive: play with reality, ignore false status, and attack problems directly.