The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Physicist Richard P. Feynman's short works are gathered in a posthumous collection of thirteen pieces, edited by Jeffrey Robbins with a foreword by Freeman Dyson. The first chapter is the transcript of a 1981 BBC Horizon interview with him. Other pieces include There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, his 1959 lecture, his 1974 commencement speech at Caltech, where he coined the phrase cargo cult science, and the minority report he wrote on the Challenger disaster. Further pieces take up computing machines of the future, the value of science, science and religion, his time at Los Alamos, and the role of scientific culture in society. Perseus Books published it in 1999.

It appears in a roundup of favorite inspirational reads from top CEOs, which links it to Google co-founder Larry Page and calls it a genuine work of art. PentesterLab founder Louis Nyffenegger named it in an interview as a book that improved the way he thinks.