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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 wha...more
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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by Stephen W. Hawking (shelved 476 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,155 ratings — published 1988
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 386 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,721 ratings — published 2003
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by Brian Greene (shelved 315 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,130 ratings — published 1999
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 260 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,690 ratings — published 1976
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Guns, Germs, and Steel (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 214 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,458 ratings — published 1997
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Origin of Species (cloth)
by Charles Darwin (shelved 194 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,953 ratings — published 1859
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (shelved 174 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,820 ratings — published 2003
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 169 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,956 ratings — published 1995
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The Blind Watchmaker (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 169 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,279 ratings — published 1986
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Cosmos (Hardcover)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 163 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,515 ratings — published 1980
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The Fabric of the Cosmos (Space, time, and the texture of reality)
by Brian Greene (shelved 163 times as science)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,166 ratings — published 2004
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The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 159 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,366 ratings — published 2006
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by Richard P. Feynman (shelved 153 times as science)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,598 ratings — published 1985
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The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by Alan Weisman (shelved 141 times as science)
avg rating 3.80 — 9,611 ratings — published 2007
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver W. Sacks (shelved 137 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,297 ratings — published 1985
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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story (Paperback)
by Richard Preston (shelved 127 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,815 ratings — published 1994
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (shelved 123 times as science)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,068 ratings — published 2008
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter (shelved 122 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,942 ratings — published 1979
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Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by James Gleick (shelved 116 times as science)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,634 ratings — published 1987
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The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by Stephen W. Hawking (shelved 115 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,408 ratings — published 2001
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 107 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,695 ratings — published 2003
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by Thomas S. Kuhn (shelved 103 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,886 ratings — published 1962
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (shelved 101 times as science)
avg rating 3.38 — 4,939 ratings — published 2005
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.)
by Matt Ridley (shelved 99 times as science)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,382 ratings — published 1999
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The Omnivore's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 97 times as science)
avg rating 4.26 — 38,578 ratings — published 2006
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time (Hardcover)
by Dava Sobel (shelved 94 times as science)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,289 ratings — published 1994
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Paperback)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 91 times as science)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,349 ratings — published 2001
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The Double Helix (Paperback)
by James D. Watson (shelved 89 times as science)
avg rating 3.53 — 792 ratings — published 1968
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 89 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,974 ratings — published 1991
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by Richard P. Feynman (shelved 85 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,017 ratings — published 1962
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 82 times as science)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,833 ratings — published 2004
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)
by Albert Einstein (shelved 79 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 673 ratings — published 1916
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Hardcover)
by Michio Kaku (shelved 79 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,009 ratings — published 1994
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Blink (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 78 times as science)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,416 ratings — published 2005
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (Hardcover)
by Natalie Angier (shelved 78 times as science)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,093 ratings — published 2007
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Hardcover)
by Daniel J. Levitin (shelved 78 times as science)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,582 ratings — published 2006
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Hardcover)
by Neil deGrasse Tyson (shelved 76 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 993 ratings — published 2007
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics)
by Steven Pinker (shelved 76 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,303 ratings — published 1994
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by Neil Shubin (Goodreads author) (shelved 75 times as science)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,308 ratings — published 2008
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Mass Market Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 75 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,272 ratings — published 1977
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver W. Sacks (shelved 75 times as science)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,391 ratings — published 2007
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (Paperback)
by Dava Sobel (shelved 69 times as science)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,504 ratings — published 1999
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised and Expanded Edition)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 69 times as science)
avg rating 3.78 — 72,558 ratings — published 2005
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 66 times as science)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,019 ratings — published 1994
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Hardcover)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 64 times as science)
avg rating 4.28 — 976 ratings — published 2006
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 63 times as science)
avg rating 3.97 — 837 ratings — published 1998
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by Matt Ridley (shelved 62 times as science)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,247 ratings — published 2000
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by Steven Johnson (shelved 62 times as science)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,021 ratings — published 2006
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The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by Stephen Jay Gould (shelved 60 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,171 ratings — published 1981
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Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 60 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,012 ratings — published 1997
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"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions."
— Claude Lévi-Strauss
— Claude Lévi-Strauss
"It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct."
— Michio Kaku (Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension)
— Michio Kaku (Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension)
Opening to my upcoming novel, Sunrise Destiny.
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Sneak peek at the sequel to "Free Will"..."Consequences"
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