Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges and Refused to Give Up
The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us about Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
The New Ocean: The Fate of Life in a Changing Sea
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
Awkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome

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  • When Breath Becomes Air
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    Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Grit
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
    Lab Girl
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    The Dollmaker (The Forgotten Files, #2)
    Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
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    A Brief History of Time
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Grand Design
    The God Delusion
    The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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    Isaac Asimov
    The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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    Stephen Hawking
    One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
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