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by (shelved 318 times as myths)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,311,163 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 268 times as myths)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,919,074 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 216 times as myths)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,377,820 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 208 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 340,560 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 158 times as myths)
avg rating 4.26 — 157,310 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 156 times as myths)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,337,390 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 147 times as myths)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,194,555 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 139 times as myths)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,129,120 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 138 times as myths)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,200,178 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 131 times as myths)
avg rating 3.79 — 143,407 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 129 times as myths)
avg rating 4.29 — 928,901 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 112 times as myths)
avg rating 4.40 — 658,619 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 109 times as myths)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,859 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 104 times as myths)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,171,840 ratings — published -700

by (shelved 103 times as myths)
avg rating 4.47 — 665,878 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 100 times as myths)
avg rating 3.93 — 119,028 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 95 times as myths)
avg rating 3.71 — 84,833 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 94 times as myths)
avg rating 3.89 — 109,710 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 93 times as myths)
avg rating 4.57 — 475,240 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 81 times as myths)
avg rating 4.03 — 59,451 ratings — published 1942

by (shelved 80 times as myths)
avg rating 3.93 — 501,820 ratings — published -800

by (shelved 80 times as myths)
avg rating 4.43 — 384,020 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 79 times as myths)
avg rating 3.66 — 54,605 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 76 times as myths)
avg rating 3.79 — 74,175 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 75 times as myths)
avg rating 4.22 — 54,131 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 75 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 984,499 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 74 times as myths)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,878 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 74 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 422,393 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 72 times as myths)
avg rating 4.31 — 57,976 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 67 times as myths)
avg rating 4.13 — 227,013 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 64 times as myths)
avg rating 3.74 — 33,695 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 62 times as myths)
avg rating 4.23 — 237,407 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 60 times as myths)
avg rating 4.18 — 226,096 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 54 times as myths)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,469 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 51 times as myths)
avg rating 4.35 — 40,995 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 51 times as myths)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,413 ratings — published 1988

by (shelved 50 times as myths)
avg rating 4.27 — 178,968 ratings — published 2012

by (shelved 48 times as myths)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,302 ratings — published -1200

by (shelved 47 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,244 ratings — published 8

by (shelved 46 times as myths)
avg rating 3.88 — 76,123 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 46 times as myths)
avg rating 4.11 — 137,570 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 45 times as myths)
avg rating 4.30 — 127,963 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 44 times as myths)
avg rating 4.43 — 96,891 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 43 times as myths)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,310 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 42 times as myths)
avg rating 4.36 — 104,502 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 40 times as myths)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,003 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 39 times as myths)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,560 ratings — published 1949

by (shelved 38 times as myths)
avg rating 4.21 — 170,496 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 37 times as myths)
avg rating 4.41 — 19,939 ratings — published 1962

“Max Planck once remarked that new scientific truths don’t replace old ones by convincing established scientists that they were wrong; they do so because proponents of the older theory eventually die, and generations that follow find the new truths and theories to be familiar, obvious even. We are optimists. We like to think it will not take that long.
In fact, we have already taken a first step. We can see more clearly now what is going on when, for example, a study that is rigorous in every other respect begins from the unexamined assumption that there was some ‘original’ form of human society; that its nature was fundamentally good or evil; that a time before inequality and political awareness existed; that something happened to change all this; that ‘civilization’ and ‘complexity’ always come at the price of human freedoms; that participatory democracy is natural in small groups but cannot possibly scale up to anything like a city or a nation state.
We know, now, that we are in the presence of myths.”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
In fact, we have already taken a first step. We can see more clearly now what is going on when, for example, a study that is rigorous in every other respect begins from the unexamined assumption that there was some ‘original’ form of human society; that its nature was fundamentally good or evil; that a time before inequality and political awareness existed; that something happened to change all this; that ‘civilization’ and ‘complexity’ always come at the price of human freedoms; that participatory democracy is natural in small groups but cannot possibly scale up to anything like a city or a nation state.
We know, now, that we are in the presence of myths.”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

“It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we’re talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark