Ranked: What Makes Science A Science?

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. 


    1. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
    2. If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic by Fred Leavitt
    3. Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi
    4. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
    5. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
    6. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
    7. The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
    8. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
    9. The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
    10. Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math by Joseph Mazur
    11. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
    12. Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
    13. The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta by Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld
    14. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
    15. The Arch of Knowledge: An Introductory Study of the History of the Philosophy and Methodology of Science by David Oldroyd