Physics

Physics is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.

Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
The Maniac
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
White Holes
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Quantum Supremacy
Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka na ludzi
A Brief History of Time
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
The Grand Design
The Order of Time
Physics of the Impossible
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Cosmos
The Universe in a Nutshell
Unitivity Theory Illuminates by Leroy R. AmunrudBasic Structures of Matter by Stoyan SargThe Origins of Israel and Mankind by Brendan StannardIs Consciousness the Unified Field? A Field Theorist's Perspe... by John S. HagelinThe Other Theory of Physics by James Carter
Unified Theories
86 books — 3 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Principia by Isaac NewtonFrom the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyRelativity by Albert EinsteinOn The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus
Science Through History
229 books — 20 voters

Every 9 Minutes by Christina VitaglianoThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Modern Science Nonfiction
480 books — 388 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanNight by Elie WieselLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson MandelaRelativity by Albert Einstein
Nobel Prize in ANYTHING BUT Literature
148 books — 59 voters

Command and Control by Eric SchlosserVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreFull Body Burden by Kristen IversenThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Nuclear Science Studies
118 books — 21 voters


Werner Heisenberg
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers

Niels Bohr
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
Niels Bohr, Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

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