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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,089 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,316,834 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,460 ratings — published 2003
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,201 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,938 ratings — published 1976
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.36 — 236,590 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.14 — 200,224 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,854 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,167 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.17 — 611,685 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,795,524 ratings — published 2021
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,707 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 — 103,824 ratings — published 1999
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,489 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,217 ratings — published 1997
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,735 ratings — published 2016
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,070 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 — 82,678 ratings — published 1995
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,364,891 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 247,331 ratings — published 2003
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,477 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,775 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 4.04 — 252,938 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 — 186,938 ratings — published 2013
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.90 — 287,410 ratings — published 2006
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 222,376 ratings — published 1985
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,665 ratings — published 2014
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,330 ratings — published 1916
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,736 ratings — published 2018
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,922 ratings — published 2009
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,472 ratings — published 2010
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,964 ratings — published 1987
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.33 — 304,966 ratings — published 2014
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 69,576 ratings — published 2014
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,910 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 — 41,423 ratings — published 2004
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,054 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 — 29,043 ratings — published 2002
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,034 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 — 77,776 ratings — published 1995
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,288 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,737 ratings — published 1979
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.31 — 103,954 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,022 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 — 22,999 ratings — published 2004
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,899 ratings — published 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.17 — 33,349 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 — 29,746 ratings — published 2008
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.61 — 8,159 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 — 18,239 ratings — published 2011
“There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply can't see a chasm in between the two. What is spiritual produces what is scientific and when science is used to disprove the spiritual, it's always done with the intent to do so; a personal contempt. As a result, scientists today only prove their inferiority to the great founding fathers of the sciences who were practitioners of alchemy. Today's science is washed-out and scrubbed-down and robbed of everything mystical and spiritual, a knowledge born of contempt and discontent. Or perhaps, there are a few who wish to keep those secrets to themselves and serve everyone else up with a tasteless version of science and the idiots of today blindly follow their equally blind leaders.”
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“The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”
― Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley
― Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley
