Before purchasing this book, I perused the one-star reviews. “This guy is full of himself”, “boring”. “no depth”, “nothing to do with science”. Great! I immediately bought it, and what a revelation.  But the wheat has to be separated from the chaff.  Feynman, a Nobel Laureate in Physics had the boldness to bare the inner secrets of a discoverer. He presents an understanding of how the heroes of science expose Nature’s hidden treasures.  What do we discern in Feynman’s jumble of everyday experiences? First, a restless discontentment with things as they are, be it slicing beans or expressing a physics equation. There must be a simpler and better way of doing it. So he would give it a go, irrespective of the outcome. He never took himself too seriously and constantly changed fields of interest, be it physics, biology or philosophy, thus ensuring a lack of boredom or staleness. Had he so wished, he could have made major contributions in a variety of subjects.  But physics was his enduring love.  Feynman’s curiosity was well-established in childhood and this was associated with intense powers of observation.  He would gaze at the movements of a paramecium under a microscope for hours and note subtle features that had never before been described. Even at graduate school, he could get excited by the wonder of an ant drinking an aphid’s “honeydew” which he had observed through a hand-microscope. He used a simple experimental method to determine how the ants on his windowsill could find a sugar lump and convey this information to others in the colony. He had an insatiable desire to know how things worked and would dismantle radios and locks for this purpose.  His father had taught him to eschew pomposity and this he did with zest, especially when it was displayed by ‘experts’ whom he considered to be fools.  His thinking was imaginative and intuitive but how new ideas formed in his brain and in those of other geniuses I will never know. This book requires an editor’s red pen, but it will appeal to those who have a deep interest in scientific discovery.