- Max Tegmark - american-swedish physicist - absolutely LOVE this guy!!!
- Stephen Wolfram's "New kind of science" - how cellular automata might lead to some deep answers... (don't miss the original book!!!)
- Robert Laughlin's book "Different Universe" - absolute must!!
- Vijay Balasubramanian - Occam's Razor, machine learning, neuroscience, gravity and string theory (he does it all)