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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 476,949 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,249,117 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,680 ratings — published 2003
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,701 ratings — published 1859
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.37 — 224,494 ratings — published 2017
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,099 ratings — published 1976
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.14 — 194,932 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,346 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.08 — 205,672 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.17 — 583,750 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 801,123 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,071 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,109 ratings — published 1997
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,458 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,144 ratings — published 2015
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,224 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 — 80,031 ratings — published 1995
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,179 ratings — published 2003
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,067,292 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,277,605 ratings — published 2011
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,983 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 113,775 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.05 — 245,149 ratings — published 1985
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 217,045 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 — 170,489 ratings — published 2013
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.90 — 282,553 ratings — published 2006
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,861 ratings — published 2018
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,011 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,039 ratings — published 2009
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,988 ratings — published 1916
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,257 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,523 ratings — published 2004
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,398 ratings — published 2014
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,104 ratings — published 2002
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,885 ratings — published 1987
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,742 ratings — published 2016
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,424 ratings — published 2008
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 — 76,144 ratings — published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,814 ratings — published 1962
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,654 ratings — published 2004
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,773 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,415 ratings — published 1979
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.35 — 274,826 ratings — published 2014
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.31 — 98,721 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 — 18,050 ratings — published 2011
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.88 — 93,983 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,671 ratings — published 1986
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,382 ratings — published 2019
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 — 40,028 ratings — published 2018
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,761 ratings — published 2018
“Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in some detectable way or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, that god is indistinguishable from a non-existent god. That only leaves a god who interacts with the universe in some detectable way. But if science, which is the greatest realization of the use of our senses to, you know, detect things, hasn’t found this god, that doesn’t say much for individuals.
In short, the god you’ve created is, in fact, undetectable by science. The limits of science are not the province of religious knowledge. Where science is ignorant, so is religion. The only difference is that religion lacks the integrity of science.”
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In short, the god you’ve created is, in fact, undetectable by science. The limits of science are not the province of religious knowledge. Where science is ignorant, so is religion. The only difference is that religion lacks the integrity of science.”
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“The food was so bad at the La Palma astronomical observatory that I stopped eating there.”
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