From "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" (1985)

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) was a Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, his colorful personality, and his gift for explaining complex science plainly. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" is a best-selling collection of his autobiographical anecdotes, first published in 1985. The title comes from a remark a Princeton dean made to him during a graduate-school interview. The book is less about physics than about Feynman's unconventional life: his safecracking at Los Alamos, his bongo drumming, his art sketching, and his relentless skepticism toward pretension and authority. This specific URL appears to host an online excerpt of the book. The ?repostindays=413 query parameter is likely a timestamp or counter for a link-rot recovery service and is not part of the original book.