This describes itself as "The best short works of Richard Feynman", and is a collection ranging from his minority report on the Challenger disaster to ephemera such as speeches.  The level ranges from fairly technical:  "Computing machines in the Future" and the Challenger report aforesaid, to reminiscences of his extracurricular activities during the Second World War:  "Los Alamos from Below",  to examinations of his, Feynman's personal philosophy of science - although it would not have been wise to use the word "philosophy" of his thoughts in his hearing!  This is a man who, delivering an address to the Nobel Prize Committee that had just awarded him the prize for his theory of quantumelectrodynamics, said cheerfully, "I think the theory is simply a way to sweep the difficulties under the rug.  I am, of course, not sure of that."  Without false dignity himself, he could never understand why philosophers could not laugh at themselves.

A most enjoyable read whatever your level of scientific expertise. 288pp.paperback; index