Foundations & Overviews

Cargo Cult Science

Richard Feynman

Scientific integrity means bending over backwards to show how you might be wrong — everything else is imitation.

Assumes no prior reading at all — it is a commencement address about honesty, not a physics paper

Fun to Imagine: Magnets (and Why? Questions)

Richard Feynman (Christopher Sykes)

Refuses to explain magnetism in terms of anything more familiar, arguing that every 'why' answer bottoms out in a framework the questioner already accepts, and that physics can only say which framework.