See also Astronomy. This looks more at non-astronomy stuff.

• 285–212 BCE Archimedes
• 1642-1726 Isaac Newton
• 1867-1934 Marie Curie
• (Maxwell and all the electromagnetics crap)
• 1879-1955 Albert Einstein
• 1885-1962 Niels Bohr
• 1887-1961 Erwin Schrödinger
• 1901-1976 Werner Heisenberg
• 1906-1978 Kurt Gödel
• 1918-1988 Richard Feynman
• 1930-1982 Hugh Everett

Some blogs I am mining. I'm not actively following them, it's a reading list, like a stack of textbooks.

• Aceso Under Glass (Elizabeth van Nostrand)
• Kelsey Piper
• Holly Elmore
• Maggie Appleton
• Meteuphoric (Katja Grace)
• Julia Galef
• Sarah Constantin
• Zeynep Tufekci
• Kaj Sotala
• Andrew Gelman
• Rasmus Bååth
• Agenty Duck (Brienne Strohl)
• Luke Muehlhauser
• Xiaoyu He
• Karthik Chikmagalur
• Protesilaos Stavrou
• Peter Norvig
• Nothing is Mere (Rob Bensinger)
• Meaningness (David Chapman)
• Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander)
• Slate Star Codex (Scott Alexander)
• Eukaryote Writes Blog (Georgia Ray)
• The Hardest Science (Sanjay Srivastava)
• Thing of Things (Ozy Brennan)
• Minding our Way (Nate Soares)
• Neel Nanda
• Error Statistics Philosophy (Deborah Mayo)
• Alicorn (Hannah Blume)
• Gwern Branwen
• Unstable Ontology (Jessica Taylor)
• Brian Tomasik
• Anders Sandberg
• Health News Review
• Flight from Perfection (Milan Griffes)
• Vox: Show me the Evidence (Julia Belluz & others)
• Less Wrong
• Center for Open Science
• StatNews Watchdogs
• Reducing Suffering
• Simply Statistics
• GiveWell Blog
• Center for Applied Rationality
• 80,000 Hours

Already mined:

• Mr. Money Mustache
• Grant Rettke
• Zooko Wilcox
• Amber O'Hearn
• Chelsea Voss
• Esther Gokhale
• Katy Bowman

A way to "find" facts by discussion.

The term "dialectics" has acquired several meanings over the ages.

• Plato introduced it as a style of discussion distinct from the rhetorical arts because of negative associations. Through critical questions and by either synthesis or analysis, it should help the discussers get rid of unfounded impressions and approach the truth.
• For Hermogenes of Tarsus, dialectic was the argumentation art for general questions "Should one marry?" and rhetoric was the art for specific questions "Should Anna marry?".
• In the 19th century (like for Hegel & Marx) it was something else…

For learning rhetoric, imitatio and aemulatio was considered important throughout history. That you would imitate an excellent speaker (copy a speech to learn the ropes) and emulate (absorb their character and maybe outshine them).

• Theory
• Imitation
• Practice