Book review - The Meaning of it All (Richard Feynman)

I owe Richard Feynman a lot - after spending a couple of years at university dossing around taking drugs and playing Amiga games, his lectures on Physics not only rescued me from degree obscurity but also inspired me to a successful specialism for my Masters. He was someone who could make theoretical stuff approachable and interesting, and that's why I'd grabbed this book when normally the title may well have made me flinch.

It doesn't disappoint. It's more of a transcript than the lectures in Physics (which I sadly can't afford :(), and reveals the man's gentle humour and slightly circular thinking processes. It even then brought up questions about unscientificness and morals of research that are still rearing up and biting us on the ass today. It also seems very "inspirational" for some of the Ben Goldacre book I read recently. So really a gentle and user-friendly introduction to one of our great modern scientific brains, with some "issues" thrown in for good measure.