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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 humorists, 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.

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The given statement is true. There are many scientists like any other group of humans who have led their lives with a great sense of fun and adventure. There are many great scientists who have their share of humorists alongwith being physicists, e.g. Feynman, Gamow, Bohr, Einstein, Dr. C.V.Raman, APJ Kalam, Homi Johangir Bhabha are great scientists as well as jovial , fun loving .
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