The scientific paradigm - it epistemology, philosophy, applications and practice - is the crowning glory of our species. We have learned to observe and model behavior of systems across various spatial and temporal scales - the process is iterative, self-correcting, reproducible and has built and continues to add to the collective knowledge-base of modern science. The details and means to do this are as wide as scientific disciplines and their interconnections themselves. As educators and professional scientists, we strive to impart the notion of this ideology and its facets to engage and motivate the next-generation of student-scientists. Given the rapidly growing body of scientific knowledge (and its rate), getting students to begin a journey into this paradigmatic program of scientific thought without just absorbing "facts" but instead reasoning things "from first principles" is challenging, to put it mildly. In physics, this has become near impossible give...