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.

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Prove It: A Scientific Guide for the Post-Truth Era

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What is calculus?: Learn the basic concepts (without the hard math)

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Release date: Aug 16, 2025

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What Is Healthy?: And Why is it so Hard to Achieve?

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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

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402 books — 486 voters

Best Science Fiction Books with Female Main Characters

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200 books — 306 voters

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“ The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

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