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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 12647 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 489,027 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 8459 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 431,704 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 7208 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,269 ratings — published 1976
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7102 times as science)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,823 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6932 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,307,090 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6668 times as science)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,217 ratings — published 1980
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5975 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 821,628 ratings — published 2010
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5842 times as science)
avg rating 4.14 — 199,481 ratings — published 2014
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5356 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,872 ratings — published 1859
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 4841 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,266 ratings — published 1995
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4825 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,600 ratings — published 1999
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4199 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 246,094 ratings — published 2003
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4188 times as science)
avg rating 4.37 — 235,112 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4077 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,426 ratings — published 2016
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 4074 times as science)
avg rating 4.26 — 221,706 ratings — published 1985
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3814 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,240 ratings — published 2010
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3639 times as science)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,316 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 3382 times as science)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,504 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 3330 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 251,790 ratings — published 1985
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3323 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 468,094 ratings — published 1997
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3252 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 69,072 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3247 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,333 ratings — published 2010
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3165 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,806 ratings — published 2009
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3065 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 607,688 ratings — published 2011
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3058 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,306 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 2989 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,421 ratings — published 2015
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2961 times as science)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,207 ratings — published 2018
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2941 times as science)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,780 ratings — published 1962
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2916 times as science)
avg rating 4.31 — 103,284 ratings — published 2019
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2901 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,110 ratings — published 2016
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2859 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 286,760 ratings — published 2006
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2747 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,833 ratings — published 1987
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2658 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,547 ratings — published 1979
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2607 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,466 ratings — published 1994
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 2590 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,150 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2536 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,251 ratings — published 1986
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2523 times as science)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,589 ratings — published 2017
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2505 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,961 ratings — published 2001
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2485 times as science)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,262 ratings — published 2020
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2475 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,742 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2387 times as science)
avg rating 4.22 — 42,799 ratings — published 2018
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2346 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,220 ratings — published 2008
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2342 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,447 ratings — published 2017
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2291 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,975 ratings — published 2008
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 2243 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,627 ratings — published 1994
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2240 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,401 ratings — published 1999
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2229 times as science)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,692 ratings — published 2006
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2196 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,624 ratings — published 2008
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2154 times as science)
avg rating 4.50 — 184,621 ratings — published 2013
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2120 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 124,283 ratings — published 1994
“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
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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