/lit/ - Literature

>>10453496
ITT: Mad /pol/aks that are mad that Feynman called them out on their IQ world view BS decades ago.

I'm interested in becoming a more enticing educational writer and am looking for people to ape.

I'm looking for examples of hard science writers who make themselves a joy to read even in their technical writing, both in terms of tone and ability to educate. I think Feynman's lectures are a top notch example. Lower down are Thomas Sowell and Michael Sipser (who may be less technical than some would prefer.)

Who are your go-tos? Suggest people mainly in the hard sciences, but also in philosophy, history, and the softer sciences.

Why was he so butthurt and assblasted about philosophy and social sciences?

>My son is taking a course in philosophy, and last night we were looking at something by Spinoza and there was the most childish reasoning! There were all these attributes, and Substances, and all this meaningless chewing around, and we started to laugh. Now how could we do that? Here's this great Dutch philosopher, and we're laughing at him. It's because there's no excuse for it! In the same period there was Newton, there was Harvey studying the circulation of the blood, there were people with methods of analysis by which progress was being made! You can take every one of Spinoza's propositions, and take the contrary propositions, and look at the world and you can't tell which is right.
What exactly did he mean by this?

Are there any respected books that involve highly technical science, not didactically but as creative narrative? Like a /sci/ - /lit/ chimera

>My son is taking a course in philosophy, and last night we were looking at something by Spinoza and there was the most childish reasoning! There were all these attributes, and Substances, and all this meaningless chewing around, and we started to laugh. Now how could we do that? Here's this great Dutch philosopher, and we're laughing at him. It's because there's no excuse for it! In the same period there was Newton, there was Harvey studying the circulation of the blood, there were people with methods of analysis by which progress was being made! You can take every one of Spinoza's propositions, and take the contrary propositions, and look at the world and you can't tell which is right.

>>6327054

I'll leave it at 10.

>Cosmos, Carl Sagan

>The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

>A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

>The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

>1984, George Orwell

>The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

>King Lear, William Shakespeare

>Hamlet, William Shakespeare

>god is not great, Christopher Hitchens inb4 hatmemes xD

>Why do you care what other people think?, Richard Feynman