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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12602 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 485,950 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 8425 times as science)
avg rating 4.22 — 428,813 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 7180 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,173 ratings — published 1976
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7079 times as science)
avg rating 4.08 — 211,662 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6897 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,293,035 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6629 times as science)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,194 ratings — published 1980
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5951 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,380 ratings — published 2010
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5828 times as science)
avg rating 4.14 — 198,314 ratings — published 2014
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5329 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,312 ratings — published 1859
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4807 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,160 ratings — published 1999
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 4799 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,651 ratings — published 1995
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4167 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 244,149 ratings — published 2003
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4145 times as science)
avg rating 4.37 — 232,606 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4053 times as science)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,915 ratings — published 2016
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 4045 times as science)
avg rating 4.26 — 220,455 ratings — published 1985
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3796 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 116,318 ratings — published 2010
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3624 times as science)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,748 ratings — published 2014
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 3369 times as science)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,098 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 3317 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 250,108 ratings — published 1985
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3306 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 464,729 ratings — published 1997
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3236 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,056 ratings — published 2010
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3218 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,376 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3157 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,609 ratings — published 2009
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3048 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,675 ratings — published 2011
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3046 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,083 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 2988 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,776 ratings — published 2015
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2948 times as science)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,458 ratings — published 2018
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2915 times as science)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,524 ratings — published 1962
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2889 times as science)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,088 ratings — published 2019
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2884 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,664 ratings — published 2016
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2850 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,702 ratings — published 2006
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2735 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,546 ratings — published 1987
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2629 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,221 ratings — published 1979
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2597 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,131 ratings — published 1994
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 2585 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,903 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2531 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,102 ratings — published 1986
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2503 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,737 ratings — published 2001
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2499 times as science)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,036 ratings — published 2017
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2457 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 90,681 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2453 times as science)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,224 ratings — published 2020
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2368 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,046 ratings — published 2018
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2344 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,125 ratings — published 2008
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2314 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,788 ratings — published 2017
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2287 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,819 ratings — published 2008
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2238 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,277 ratings — published 1999
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2228 times as science)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,545 ratings — published 2006
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 2226 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,422 ratings — published 1994
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2175 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,408 ratings — published 2008
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2124 times as science)
avg rating 4.50 — 180,874 ratings — published 2013
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2109 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 123,162 ratings — published 1994
“The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
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Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
―
“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.”
― The World As I See It
― The World As I See It
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