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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 487,827 ratings — published 1988
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 212,990 ratings — published 2017
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,454 ratings — published 1999
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,810 ratings — published 1980
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,613 ratings — published 2003
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as physical-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,827 ratings — published 2014
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,889 ratings — published 2001
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,426 ratings — published 1994
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 199,031 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,242 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,233 ratings — published 2004
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,845 ratings — published 2002
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,219 ratings — published 2017
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,852 ratings — published 1984
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,741 ratings — published 1985
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,955 ratings — published 2004
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Vintage)
by (shelved 4 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,577 ratings — published 2004
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,033 ratings — published 1995
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,977 ratings — published 2004
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,926 ratings — published 2008
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,859 ratings — published 2019
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,394 ratings — published 2020
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,609 ratings — published 2012
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 43,649 ratings — published 2005
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,644 ratings — published 2006
Pearson Physical Science, Concepts in Action Part I (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 3.55 — 31 ratings — published 2004
Optics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 874 ratings — published 1974
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,132 ratings — published 2012
Einstein’s Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 43,480 ratings — published 1993
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,796 ratings — published 1963
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,844 ratings — published 1976
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,668 ratings — published 1993
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,724 ratings — published 1994
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,565 ratings — published 1994
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 (shelved 3 times as physical-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,355 ratings — published 2010
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 68,019 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,496 ratings — published 2017
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 18,074 ratings — published 2022
The Elements Book: A Visual Periodic Table Encyclopedia for Kids (DK Our World in Pictures)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 368 ratings — published
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,769 ratings — published 2005
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,344 ratings — published 1994
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,537 ratings — published 2018
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,671 ratings — published 1859
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,448 ratings — published 2020
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,518 ratings — published 2018
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,771 ratings — published 2008
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,419 ratings — published 1995
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,351 ratings — published 2015
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 17,101 ratings — published 2014
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as physical-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,928 ratings — published 2004
“There are occasions, however, when even S holds a secret delight or two in the form of a pink, such as the one I found among the citations (or "cits" for short) for "sex kitten":
sex kitten
sex pot
There is no essential difference in these defs [definitions], but they're not the same. Some differentiation shd be made.
The pink was written by one of our former physical science editors infamous for commenting as brusquely as possible on things beyond his remit...
Another one of our science editors who was reviewing the batch later was apparently irritated by this note, and decided to comment on what he no doubt saw as needless meddling. His typewritten response to the note about "sex kitten" reads, "I will no doubt regret saying this but I think you have misconstrued the meaning of 'physical' science somewhere along here."
But a pink's a pink. Steve acted on it for the Tenth, adding the word "young" to the definition for "sex kitten.”
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
sex kitten
sex pot
There is no essential difference in these defs [definitions], but they're not the same. Some differentiation shd be made.
The pink was written by one of our former physical science editors infamous for commenting as brusquely as possible on things beyond his remit...
Another one of our science editors who was reviewing the batch later was apparently irritated by this note, and decided to comment on what he no doubt saw as needless meddling. His typewritten response to the note about "sex kitten" reads, "I will no doubt regret saying this but I think you have misconstrued the meaning of 'physical' science somewhere along here."
But a pink's a pink. Steve acted on it for the Tenth, adding the word "young" to the definition for "sex kitten.”
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
“[T]his progress of the physical sciences, which the passions and interest do not interfere to disturb; wherein it is not thought that birth, profession, or appointment have given a right to judge what the individual is not in a situation to understand; this more certain progress cannot be observed, unless enlightened men shall search in the other sciences to bring them continually together. This progress at every step exhibits the model they ought to follow; according to which they may form a judgment of their own efforts, ascertain the false steps they may have taken, preserve themselves from pyrrhonism as well as credulity, and from a blind mistrust or too extensive submission to the authorities even of men of reputation and knowledge.”
― Outlines Of An Historical View Of The Progress Of The Human Mind
― Outlines Of An Historical View Of The Progress Of The Human Mind
