Manny's votes on the list Best Science Books

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1	The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 192,523 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 4.04 avg rating — 456,676 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 4.01 avg rating — 121,928 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (Contibutor) 4.26 avg rating — 217,527 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 4.29 avg rating — 52,481 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 28,692 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 4.03 avg rating — 29,882 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman 4.27 avg rating — 19,466 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman 4.30 avg rating — 7,815 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin 4.04 avg rating — 10,672 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe by Martin J. Rees 3.95 avg rating — 5,343 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach 3.85 avg rating — 60,223 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg 4.10 avg rating — 13,272 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire 4.15 avg rating — 3,760 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell 3.95 avg rating — 3,295 ratings Manny rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology by Helge Kragh 4.45 avg rating — 104 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Cosmology and Controversy by Helge Kragh 4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology by Helge Kragh 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais 4.34 avg rating — 1,906 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein 4.12 avg rating — 3,340 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark 4.18 avg rating — 8,437 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview by Iris Fry 4.09 avg rating — 64 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Principles of Physical Cosmology by P.J.E. Peebles 3.80 avg rating — 45 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Physical Cosmology (Princeton Series in Physics) by P.J.E. Peebles 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 11,402 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 3.96 avg rating — 42,335 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens by Immanuel Kant 3.76 avg rating — 76 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose 4.16 avg rating — 8,461 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Symmetry by Hermann Weyl 3.84 avg rating — 228 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science by Hermann Weyl 4.29 avg rating — 66 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Before The Beginning: Our Universe And Others (Helix Books) by Martin J. Rees 3.95 avg rating — 273 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation by David Wallace 4.32 avg rating — 101 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family by Peter Byrne (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 161 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman 4.06 avg rating — 10,028 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim Baggott 3.91 avg rating — 411 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Against Method by Paul Karl Feyerabend 4.02 avg rating — 3,522 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins by Alan Guth 4.10 avg rating — 1,894 ratings Manny rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Home Is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life by Fred Hoyle 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings Manny rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Fred Hoyle's Universe by Jane Gregory 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings Manny rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Frontiers of Astronomy by Fred Hoyle 3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Scientific Theory and Religion: The World Described by Science and its Spiritual Interpretation by Ernest William Barnes 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology by Jacques Monod 4.10 avg rating — 1,053 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology (Dover Books on Physics) by Richard C. Tolman 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 6,859 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit 3.94 avg rating — 1,760 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe by Julian Barbour 4.11 avg rating — 3,527 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Incoming!: Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite by Ted Nield 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The Exact Sciences in Antiquity by Otto Neugebauer 4.12 avg rating — 72 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew Hurley 3.77 avg rating — 343 ratings Manny rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Natural Theology by William Paley 3.42 avg rating — 144 ratings Manny rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White 3.46 avg rating — 127 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue by Merritt Ruhlen 3.91 avg rating — 251 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	On the Nature of Things by Lucretius 3.97 avg rating — 14,562 ratings Manny rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	A Short History of Astronomy from Earliest Times Through the Nineteenth Century by Arthur Berry 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Rising Curve: Long-Term Gains In IQ and Related Measures (Apa Science Volumes) by Ulric Neisser (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Aristarchus of Samos: The Ancient Copernicus by Thomas Little Heath 3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Exposition du système du monde by Pierre-Simon Laplace 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory by George Gamow (Author / Illustrator) 4.19 avg rating — 1,268 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican by Galileo Galilei 4.07 avg rating — 1,299 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods by Nello Cristianini 3.97 avg rating — 62 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Un atome d'univers by Dominique Lambert liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	L'itinéraire spirituel de Georges Lemaître by Dominique Lambert liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings Manny rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Wrinkles in Time: The Imprint of Creation by George Smoot 4.03 avg rating — 1,276 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	L'Univers expliqué à mes petits-enfants by Hubert Reeves 3.97 avg rating — 902 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists by Alan Lightman (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	L'Invention du Big Bang by Jean-Pierre Luminet 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell 4.20 avg rating — 4,445 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions by Charles Frankel 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by Paul A.M. Dirac 4.42 avg rating — 546 ratings Manny rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Fields and Rings by Irving Kaplansky 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings Manny added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Lie Algebras and Locally Compact Groups by Irving Kaplansky 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings Manny rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars