Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
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| author = Richard P. Feynman
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| editor = Michelle Feynman
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| language = English
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| genre = Anthology
| publisher = Basic Books
| pub_date = 5 April 2005
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| media_type = Print
| pages = 486 pp.
| isbn = 978-0738206363
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman is a collection of Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman's letters.{{cite web
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|title='Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track': A Word From the Wise
|work=The New York Times
|date=2005-05-08
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|accessdate=2009-07-26
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|last=Wyatt
|first=Edward
|title=The Scientist Is Gone, But Not His Book Tour
|work=The New York Times
|date=2005-04-07
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|accessdate=2009-07-26
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|last=Chown
|first=Marcus
|authorlink=Marcus Chown
|title=Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The letters of Richard P. Feynman
|work=New Scientist
|date=2005-03-26
|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524921.800
|accessdate=2009-07-26
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The book was edited by his daughter, Michelle Feynman, and includes a foreword by Timothy Ferris. The book is also titled Don't You Have Time to Think?{{cite web
|last = Clegg
|first = Brian
|authorlink = Brian Clegg (writer)
|title = Review - Perfectly Reasonable Deviations
|work = Popular Science
|publisher = Creativity Unleashed Limited
|url = http://www.popularscience.co.uk/reviews/rev184.htm
|accessdate = 2009-07-26
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091019001350/http://www.popularscience.co.uk/reviews/rev184.htm
|archive-date = 2009-10-19
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References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101119015815/http://www.basicfeynman.com/qa.html Interview with Michelle Feynman]
- National Public Radio: [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4632994 The daughter of Richard Feynman talks about a new book of his collected letters]
- WNYC Radio: [https://web.archive.org/web/20091206153431/http://www.wnyc.org/books/46998 Eight sample letters from the book]
- [http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0738206369 About this book] from Basic Books, the publisher
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