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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 471,214 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,222,043 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,924 ratings — published 2003
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,809 ratings — published 1859
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.37 — 219,345 ratings — published 2017
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,280 ratings — published 1976
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.14 — 192,889 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,757 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.08 — 202,221 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.17 — 572,720 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,083 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,506 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,177 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.19 — 282,058 ratings — published 2015
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,622 ratings — published 2016
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,918 ratings — published 2001
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,100 ratings — published 1995
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 236,304 ratings — published 2003
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,792 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,245 ratings — published 2010
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,255,290 ratings — published 2011
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.27 — 214,932 ratings — published 1985
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.51 — 163,439 ratings — published 2013
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.90 — 280,688 ratings — published 2006
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.05 — 242,137 ratings — published 1985
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 85,359 ratings — published 2018
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,710 ratings — published 2009
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.50 — 957,557 ratings — published 2021
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,063 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,833 ratings — published 2010
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,838 ratings — published 1916
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,731 ratings — published 2002
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,230 ratings — published 2004
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.99 — 65,149 ratings — published 2014
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,290 ratings — published 2016
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,185 ratings — published 2008
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,497 ratings — published 1987
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,543 ratings — published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,404 ratings — published 1962
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,576 ratings — published 2008
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.36 — 263,463 ratings — published 2014
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,676 ratings — published 2019
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,975 ratings — published 2011
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.88 — 93,479 ratings — published 2011
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,489 ratings — published 2004
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,943 ratings — published 1979
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,353 ratings — published 1986
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,105 ratings — published 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,627 ratings — published 2018
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,865 ratings — published 2016
“[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.”
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A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.”
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“The food was so bad at the La Palma astronomical observatory that I stopped eating there.”
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