I'm just finishing up a book of lectures by the famed physicist, Richard
Feynman. It was published in 2005 but the lectures occurred months before I
was born in 1963. The name of the book is "The Meaning Of It All: Thoughts
of a Citizen-Scientist"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465023940/qid=1117658871/sr=1
-37/ref=sr_1_37/002-3402649-5609615?v=glance&s=books or
http://tinyurl.com/9mq9m

It is a very interesting and quick read. He spends the first part discussing
science. You will swear you're reading Wirt in this section, but don't let
that deter you. ;-) The second lecture moves to politics and the third talks
about religion. Even though the thoughts are over 40 years old, it is
amazing how fresh the content is - although some of the examples are
dated...

One point he makes in the first section is that in science, there is no
authority. He even says, just because a learned person says something, that
doesn't make it so - at least in a scientific sense. (It makes me wonder
what he would have thought today of the political use of scientists signing
a document to demonstrate authority?)

I've enjoyed it and maybe you will too.

Mark W.

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