A storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain. Feynman proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time.
— K. C. Cole, New York Times Book Review

Quintessential Feynman—funny, brilliant, bawdy…enormously entertaining.
— The New Yorker

Books like this are temptations—to give up reading and devote life to rereading…The book is a litmus paper: anyone who can read it without laughing out loud is bad crazy.
— Los Angeles Times Book Review

A chain reaction is not a bad analogy for Feynman’s life. From a critical mass of gray matter it goes off in all directions, producing both heat and light.
— Time

Feynman is legendary among his colleagues for his brilliance and his eccentricity…It’s not hard to smile all the way through.
— Newsweek