Critical Thinking on "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!(Feynman & Leighton)"
Posted by anjila | Posted in Critical Thinking | Posted on 2:44 AM
Though the title seems funny, there is a serious message to give to the reader that in spite of confronting so many odds at Princeton, he learned a great deal about interrelated subjects of pure science. While detailing the episodes of the ways he was embarrassed by the management of the school, he feels as if he were joking not with others but with himself. Despite doing so many types scientific researches, he showed no interest in verifying even some of the tests of spiritual belief while at the school.
Like Salman Rushdie, Mr. Feynman too does not show any direct concern with the conventional philosophy of religion persuading man kind to be divided into different sects, races and nationalities. To Feynman, education is ever good if its result or purpose serves the needs of broad humanity, as done by their contributions to make man capable of showing his potential to benefit mankind and safeguard humanity against any natural calamity. Maybe, if a scientist or learned man is tagged with a bias of sex, religion or nationality, his vision is restricted and would not do any service to broad human race. Since the passage is from scientific pen, it has given space for many technical terms used in physics, biology and biochemistry. So unless the student taps the Internet, latest encyclopedias, dictionaries and concerned experts, he would find the discourse very difficult to understand.
And man can never be sure about what happens to him in a fraction of a money. In many cases, people makes gains from things they have never hoped and face losses from things they have long expected. Studying science alone is not enough to understand the miracles of life. It should be coupled with the study of spiritualism.
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