This book made me laugh out loud many times.  Mr. Feynman was a very interesting child and I'm sure quite a challenge for his parents.  His creativity and wonderful mind lead him in many directions and fortunately for him, his parents were quite accommodating.<br><br>It must be a wonderful thing to have such a mind and natural curiosity.  Add to that the discipline necessary to follow through to test your hypotheses and evaluate the results of your experiments and find value in them whether or not your original hypothosis was proved right or wrong.  He talks about the difference in book learning where you simply recite text and facts as you learned them and the ability to USE that information in a practical way.  His tenacious hands-on approach to learning seems to have been directly linked to his freedom of experimentation in his childhood.<br><br>I gave the book 4 rather than 5 stars because I felt the book dragged a bit in places.  I was bored at times...in between the laughs that kept me reading!