Will inspire awe, make you wonder, and appreciate science. You can really read anything by any of them—it’s all good…
E. O. Wilson and Darwin (biology)
Buckminster Fuller (science and technology)
Kevin Kelly (technology)
Stewart Brand (science and technology)
Freeman Dyson (physics)
Oliver Sacks (psychology)
Carlo Rovelli (physics)
Richard Feynman (physics)
Carl Sagan (physics and cosmology)
Stephen Hawkings (physics and cosmology)