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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 536 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,315 ratings — published 1988
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 392 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,994 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 321 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,209 ratings — published 1999
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 261 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,758 ratings — published 1976
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Guns, Germs, and Steel (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 215 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,755 ratings — published 1997
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Origin of Species (cloth)
by Charles Darwin (shelved 196 times as science)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,026 ratings — published 1859
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (shelved 175 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,054 ratings — published 2003
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 171 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,025 ratings — published 1995
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The Blind Watchmaker (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 171 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,313 ratings — published 1986
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Cosmos (Hardcover)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 168 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,568 ratings — published 1980
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The Fabric of the Cosmos (Space, time, and the texture of reality)
by Brian Greene (shelved 165 times as science)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,202 ratings — published 2004
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The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 161 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,578 ratings — published 2006
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by Richard P. Feynman (shelved 156 times as science)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,664 ratings — published 1985
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The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by Alan Weisman (shelved 145 times as science)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,705 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 141 times as science)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,441 ratings — published 1985
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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story (Paperback)
by Richard Preston (shelved 129 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,896 ratings — published 1994
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (shelved 126 times as science)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,180 ratings — published 2008
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter (shelved 124 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,008 ratings — published 1979
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The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by Stephen W. Hawking (shelved 121 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,446 ratings — published 2001
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Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by James Gleick (shelved 118 times as science)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,648 ratings — published 1987
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 109 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,724 ratings — published 2003
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by Thomas S. Kuhn (shelved 105 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,923 ratings — published 1962
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (shelved 103 times as science)
avg rating 3.37 — 5,002 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 4.01 — 1,396 ratings — published 1999
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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 98 times as science)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,339 ratings — published 1994
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The Omnivore's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 97 times as science)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,917 ratings — published 2006
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The Double Helix (Paperback)
by James D. Watson (shelved 92 times as science)
avg rating 3.53 — 810 ratings — published 1968
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Paperback)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 92 times as science)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,481 ratings — published 2001
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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 4.00 — 1,993 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 87 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,030 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 — 9,953 ratings — published 2004
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)
by Albert Einstein (shelved 82 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 689 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 80 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,020 ratings — published 1994
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Hardcover)
by Daniel J. Levitin (shelved 80 times as science)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,646 ratings — published 2006
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Hardcover)
by Neil deGrasse Tyson (shelved 79 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,009 ratings — published 2007
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (Hardcover)
by Natalie Angier (shelved 79 times as science)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,099 ratings — published 2007
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Blink (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 78 times as science)
avg rating 3.67 — 36,033 ratings — published 2005
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics)
by Steven Pinker (shelved 78 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,340 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 77 times as science)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,326 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 77 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,303 ratings — published 1977
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver W. Sacks (shelved 77 times as science)
avg rating 3.63 — 4,456 ratings — published 2007
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised and Expanded Edition)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 70 times as science)
avg rating 3.77 — 74,383 ratings — published 2005
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 69 times as science)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,042 ratings — published 1994
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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 — 3,577 ratings — published 1999
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by Matt Ridley (shelved 64 times as science)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,263 ratings — published 2000
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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 — 1,002 ratings — published 2006
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The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by Stephen Jay Gould (shelved 63 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,198 ratings — published 1981
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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 3.98 — 846 ratings — published 1998
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Silent Spring (Paperback)
by Rachel Carson (shelved 63 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,869 ratings — published 1962
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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 — 3,077 ratings — published 2006
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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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