Textbooks on science may give you a wrong impression that studying science is dry and all too serious and that scientists are absent-minded introverts who never laugh or grin. This image of science and scientists is patently false. Scientists, like any other group of humans, have their share of humourists, and many have led their lives with a great sense of fun and adventure, even as they seriously pursued their scientific work. Two great physicists of this genre are Gamow and Feynman. You will enjoy reading their books listed in the Bibliography.

Scientists, like any other group of humans, have their share of humourists, and many have led their lives with a great sense of fun and adventure, even as they seriously pursued their scientific work. We can take the example of many scientists like Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman. C.V. Raman, etc., who were fun, adventurists and loving. Albert Einstein played the violin and enjoyed Mozart’s music, Richard Feynman the greatest explainer ever was humours and he played the bongo in addition to doing the serious scientific work.


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