What Do You Care What Other People Think?

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Feynman, Richard Phillips.

"What do you care what other people think?" : further adventures of

a curious character/by Richard P. Feynman, as told to Ralph

Leighton

p. cm.

Includes index.

1. Feynman, Richard Phillips. 2. Physicists—United States—

Biography. 3. Science—Anecdotes. I. Leighton, Ralph.

II. Title.

QC16.F49A3 1988

530'.9'2'—dc19

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