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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,070 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,197 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,934 ratings — published 1976
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,848 ratings — published 1980
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,316,716 ratings — published 2011
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,159 ratings — published 2017
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,450 ratings — published 2003
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,470 ratings — published 2010
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,198 ratings — published 1997
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 200,216 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,687 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,678 ratings — published 1995
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,070 ratings — published 2001
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,730 ratings — published 2018
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,824 ratings — published 1999
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,909 ratings — published 1962
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,329 ratings — published 1916
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,563 ratings — published 2017
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as sciences)
avg rating 3.98 — 69,572 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 33 times as sciences)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,729 ratings — published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,731 ratings — published 2016
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,922 ratings — published 2009
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 252,929 ratings — published 1985
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,478 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,660 ratings — published 2014
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,767 ratings — published 2010
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,946 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 611,644 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,360 ratings — published 1986
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,325 ratings — published 2003
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,771 ratings — published 1994
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,892 ratings — published 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,345 ratings — published 2016
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,421 ratings — published 2004
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,420 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,036 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 124,817 ratings — published 1994
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,477 ratings — published 1999
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,962 ratings — published 1987
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,821 ratings — published 2020
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.26 — 43,882 ratings — published 2005
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as sciences)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,848 ratings — published 2007
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,731 ratings — published 1979
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,833 ratings — published 1985
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,765 ratings — published 2006
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,669 ratings — published 1994
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,998 ratings — published 2004
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,903 ratings — published 1962
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.08 — 57,786 ratings — published 2014
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as sciences)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,289 ratings — published 2011
“Make thing effective for laughter and hapiness until the day of Judgment - before we make it "Effective" for you Hell...”
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“L'histoire des idées n'est pas nécessairement superposable à l'histoire des sciences. Mais comme les savants mènent leur vie d'hommes dans un milieu et un entourage non exclusivement scientifiques, l'histoire des sciences ne peut négliger l'histoire des idées. Appliquant à une thèse sa propre conclusion, on pourrait dire que les déformations qu'elle subit dans le milieu de culture en peuvent révéler la signification essentielle.”
― The Normal and the Pathological
― The Normal and the Pathological
