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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2270 times as physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 473,376 ratings — published 1988
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1303 times as physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,712 ratings — published 1999
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1063 times as physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,563 ratings — published 1994
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 980 times as physics)
avg rating 4.27 — 215,718 ratings — published 1985
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 964 times as physics)
avg rating 3.99 — 65,618 ratings — published 2014
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 846 times as physics)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,341 ratings — published 2004
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 831 times as physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 203,465 ratings — published 2017
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 798 times as physics)
avg rating 4.61 — 8,043 ratings — published 1964
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 794 times as physics)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,350 ratings — published 1985
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 782 times as physics)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,988 ratings — published 2010
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 738 times as physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,284 ratings — published 2008
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 733 times as physics)
avg rating 4.13 — 37,555 ratings — published 2017
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 717 times as physics)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,888 ratings — published 1916
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 708 times as physics)
avg rating 4.40 — 157,372 ratings — published 1980
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 616 times as physics)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,042 ratings — published 2001
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 585 times as physics)
avg rating 4.33 — 16,284 ratings — published 2014
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 567 times as physics)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,421 ratings — published 2004
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 519 times as physics)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,527 ratings — published 1984
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 508 times as physics)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,800 ratings — published 2011
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as physics)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,396 ratings — published 1963
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 507 times as physics)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,578 ratings — published 2012
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 488 times as physics)
avg rating 4.26 — 85,920 ratings — published 2018
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics (Theoretical Minimum #1)
by (shelved 486 times as physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,536 ratings — published 2013
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 433 times as physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,106 ratings — published 1994
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (Theoretical Minimum #2)
by (shelved 432 times as physics)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,156 ratings — published 2014
Introduction to Electrodynamics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 431 times as physics)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,416 ratings — published 1981
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,563 ratings — published 2004
The Character of Physical Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 424 times as physics)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,764 ratings — published 1964
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next (Hardcover)
by (shelved 404 times as physics)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,629 ratings — published 2006
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 384 times as physics)
avg rating 4.26 — 42,561 ratings — published 2005
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 371 times as physics)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,811 ratings — published 1994
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 367 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,092 ratings — published 2016
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as physics)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,633 ratings — published 1987
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as physics)
avg rating 4.27 — 10,462 ratings — published 2007
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 362 times as physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,029 ratings — published 2019
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 362 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,359 ratings — published 2012
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as physics)
avg rating 4.22 — 417,684 ratings — published 2003
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,207 ratings — published 1977
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 322 times as physics)
avg rating 4.17 — 200,240 ratings — published 2007
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 316 times as physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,884 ratings — published 2002
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 314 times as physics)
avg rating 4.14 — 193,586 ratings — published 2014
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as physics)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,998 ratings — published 2011
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,083 ratings — published 2006
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as physics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,481 ratings — published 1994
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as physics)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,717 ratings — published 2018
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as physics)
avg rating 4.19 — 30,521 ratings — published 1988
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 289 times as physics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,392 ratings — published 2018
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,962 ratings — published 2020
Why Does E=mc²? (And Why Should We Care?)
by (shelved 286 times as physics)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,307 ratings — published 2009
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as physics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,593 ratings — published 1989
“When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.
The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"
"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"
"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
