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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,116 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,551 ratings — published 1859
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,168 ratings — published 2015
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,818 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 419,879 ratings — published 2003
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,880 ratings — published 2014
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,891 ratings — published 2018
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,628 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,984 ratings — published 2009
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.51 — 169,520 ratings — published 2013
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,220 ratings — published 2020
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 205,143 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,244,890 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,111 ratings — published 1980
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,259 ratings — published 2003
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,825 ratings — published 1987
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,004 ratings — published 2017
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 59,295 ratings — published 2015
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,622 ratings — published 1986
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,645 ratings — published 2022
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,194 ratings — published 2014
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,438 ratings — published 2015
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,745 ratings — published 1962
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,431 ratings — published 2016
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,430 ratings — published 2016
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,275 ratings — published 2017
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,656 ratings — published 2004
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 799,959 ratings — published 2010
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,250 ratings — published 2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,002 ratings — published 1999
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,006 ratings — published 2006
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,957 ratings — published 1916
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,018 ratings — published 1949
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,339 ratings — published 2016
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,997 ratings — published 2008
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,280 ratings — published 2007
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,575 ratings — published 1991
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,686 ratings — published 2008
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 34,902 ratings — published 2022
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,467 ratings — published 2019
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 223,792 ratings — published 2017
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 16,431 ratings — published 2014
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,577 ratings — published 1962
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,686 ratings — published 2012
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,280 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,897 ratings — published 1995
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,242 ratings — published 2006
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,644 ratings — published 2018
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 194,016 ratings — published 2018
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,638 ratings — published 2016
“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.”
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“What is most remarkable about the philosophy of Kant, in my opinion, is the wide range of topics on which his thoughts repay careful study. In so many areas -- not only in metaphysics but also in natural science, history, morality, and critique of taste -- he seems to have gone to the root of the matter, and at least raised for us the fundamental issues, whether or not we decide in the end that what he said about them is correct. In his brief, five-page essay on the question "What is Enlightenment?" for example, he locates the essence of enlightenment not in learning or the cultivation of our intellectual powers but in the courage and resolve to think for oneself, to emancipate oneself from tradition, prejudice, and every form of authority that offers us the comfort and security of letting someone else do our thinking for us. Kant's essay enables us to see that the issues raised by the challenge of the Enlightenment are still just as much with us as they were in the eighteenth century.”
― Kant
― Kant
