Science

Steven Weinberg To Explain the World: the Discovery of Modern Science

science is the foundations, see also Physics TREE

Metaphors

• Metaphors, Models & Theories Emanuel Derman

Finance and Physics as metaphor
https://www.amazon.com/Models-Behaving-Badly-Confusing-Illusion-Reality-Disaster/dp/1439164991

• Mathematics as metaphor Yuri Manin

social metaphors in physics

challenges

Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
By Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen,
and Michael Webb

see the books by Robert Laughlin
theoretical physics versus mathematical physics - Goldenfeld - simple guess+maths (min 12-14)