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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 2067 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 140,943 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1625 times as science)
avg rating 4.14 — 65,224 ratings — published 1976
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1484 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 245,310 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by Brian Greene (shelved 1451 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 53,097 ratings — published 1999
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by Charles Darwin (shelved 1379 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 56,468 ratings — published 1859
Cosmos (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 1303 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 48,818 ratings — published 1980
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 1158 times as science)
avg rating 4.31 — 41,652 ratings — published 1995
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1065 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 33,040 ratings — published 2009
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 962 times as science)
avg rating 3.89 — 127,140 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 951 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 159,280 ratings — published 1997
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Paperback)
by Richard P. Feynman (shelved 905 times as science)
avg rating 4.32 — 56,425 ratings — published 1985
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 850 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 43,170 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos (Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality)
by Brian Greene (shelved 843 times as science)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,561 ratings — published 2003
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by Sam Kean (shelved 816 times as science)
avg rating 3.89 — 29,766 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 800 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 24,101 ratings — published 1986
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 772 times as science)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,069 ratings — published 2008
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 764 times as science)
avg rating 3.92 — 31,894 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 704 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 82,004 ratings — published 1985
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 645 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,007 ratings — published 2004
Bad Science (Paperback)
by Ben Goldacre (shelved 622 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,638 ratings — published 2007
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel (Hardcover)
by Michio Kaku (shelved 609 times as science)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,821 ratings — published 2008
Chaos: The Making of a New Science (Paperback)
by James Gleick (shelved 604 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 18,177 ratings — published 1987
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter (shelved 592 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 36,340 ratings — published 1979
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Hardcover)
by Neil deGrasse Tyson (shelved 587 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,769 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 583 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 109,755 ratings — published 1988
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 563 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,500 ratings — published 1994
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by Alan Weisman (shelved 550 times as science)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,389 ratings — published 2007
The Hot Zone (Hardcover)
by Richard Preston (shelved 548 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,354 ratings — published 1989
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 532 times as science)
avg rating 3.53 — 27,007 ratings — published 2005
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time (Hardcover)
by Dava Sobel (shelved 525 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,706 ratings — published 1995
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by Matt Ridley (shelved 525 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,233 ratings — published 1999
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by Neil Shubin (Goodreads Author) (shelved 519 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,027 ratings — published 2008
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by Thomas S. Kuhn (shelved 511 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 13,618 ratings — published 1962
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 446 times as science)
avg rating 3.83 — 397,408 ratings — published 2001
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Paperback)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 444 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 41,914 ratings — published 2001
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by Michio Kaku (shelved 436 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,580 ratings — published 1993
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by Brian Greene (shelved 429 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,103 ratings — published 2011
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 424 times as science)
avg rating 4.14 — 14,309 ratings — published 2005
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 413 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,108 ratings — published 1977
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 409 times as science)
avg rating 3.84 — 36,729 ratings — published 2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 409 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 137,584 ratings — published 2006
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by Lawrence M. Krauss (shelved 404 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,709 ratings — published 2012
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 402 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,590 ratings — published 1991
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 402 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 55,168 ratings — published 2004
Why Evolution Is True
by Jerry A. Coyne (shelved 401 times as science)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,117 ratings — published 2008
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 401 times as science)
avg rating 3.80 — 223,532 ratings — published 2005
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by James D. Watson (shelved 383 times as science)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,600 ratings — published 1968
Billions and Billions (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 368 times as science)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,174 ratings — published 1997
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 363 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,643 ratings — published 1998
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by Deborah Blum (shelved 358 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 18,919 ratings — published 2010
“Seven Deadly Sins
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.”
― Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
― Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
The Scientific Method (a Wandering Koala tale)
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