"Atlas Shrugged" (get large print edition and a sturdy table to rest the book on) unfortunately Ayn Rand's vision of the future is becoming familiar, "1984" always a classic but closer to home now too, "Surely You're Joking" adventures of physicist Richard Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think" more on Feynman, and "Feynman's Lectures" Vols. I, II and III which are pretty technical but provide the background for much of the physics behind your amateur astronomy and everything else from one of the people who developed Quantum Electrodynamics ("QED"). The latter 3 all Feynman-centric capture what science and scientists should be - authentic, personal and FUN! I see the first two books describing what can (does) happen when science becomes political
Ah YES, an excellent list! I've got "Atlas" (although have yet to read it...!) "Surely You're Joking" inspired me to steal my own door when I was a teenager at summer camp, but - haven't got the other ones. They're on the list now!
"Atlas Shrugged" (get large print edition and a sturdy table to rest the book on) unfortunately Ayn Rand's vision of the future is becoming familiar, "1984" always a classic but closer to home now too, "Surely You're Joking" adventures of physicist Richard Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think" more on Feynman, and "Feynman's Lectures" Vols. I, II and III which are pretty technical but provide the background for much of the physics behind your amateur astronomy and everything else from one of the people who developed Quantum Electrodynamics ("QED"). The latter 3 all Feynman-centric capture what science and scientists should be - authentic, personal and FUN! I see the first two books describing what can (does) happen when science becomes political
Ah YES, an excellent list! I've got "Atlas" (although have yet to read it...!) "Surely You're Joking" inspired me to steal my own door when I was a teenager at summer camp, but - haven't got the other ones. They're on the list now!