This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What Makes Science A Science?
Science, a never ending quest of trial after trial. This is a list of books that describe how do go about doing and thinking about science.
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
- If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic by Fred Leavitt
- Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi
- Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
- Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
- Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
- The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
- Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
- Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math by Joseph Mazur
- The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
- Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
- The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta by Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld
- In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
- The Arch of Knowledge: An Introductory Study of the History of the Philosophy and Methodology of Science by David Oldroyd
Fiction
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
