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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 494,497 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,147 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,687 ratings — published 2003
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,774 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,242 ratings — published 1976
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.36 — 239,294 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,518 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,017 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,431 ratings — published 2017
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,890,555 ratings — published 2021
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 618,747 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 830,407 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 4.09 — 104,289 ratings — published 1999
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,485 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,952 ratings — published 1997
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,282 ratings — published 2016
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,301 ratings — published 2001
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,362 ratings — published 1995
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,384,977 ratings — published 2011
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,619 ratings — published 1999
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,460 ratings — published 2003
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,568 ratings — published 2006
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,748 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 4.04 — 254,989 ratings — published 1985
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.50 — 190,812 ratings — published 2013
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 223,973 ratings — published 1985
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,304 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,128 ratings — published 2009
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,426 ratings — published 1916
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,671 ratings — published 2018
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,738 ratings — published 2010
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.33 — 311,300 ratings — published 2014
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,246 ratings — published 1987
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,514 ratings — published 2014
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,206 ratings — published 1962
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,636 ratings — published 2004
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,340 ratings — published 2016
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 29,285 ratings — published 2002
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,202 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 — 78,224 ratings — published 1995
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,461 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,091 ratings — published 1979
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,216 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.33 — 183,167 ratings — published 2019
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 — 23,083 ratings — published 2004
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,632 ratings — published 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,767 ratings — published 2016
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,015 ratings — published 2008
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.61 — 8,185 ratings — published 1964
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 — 18,287 ratings — published 2011
“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
― Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations
― Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations
“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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