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Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 765 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,725 ratings — published 1980
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 607 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 496,134 ratings — published 1988
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 542 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,732 ratings — published 2017
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,078 ratings — published 1994
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,999 ratings — published 2006
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,435 ratings — published 2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,565 ratings — published 1999
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,154 ratings — published 2010
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,096 ratings — published 2004
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 150 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,007 ratings — published 2020
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,875 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,719 ratings — published 2004
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,316 ratings — published 2008
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 92,133 ratings — published 2018
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 125 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,273 ratings — published 1983
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,619 ratings — published 2003
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,648 ratings — published 2010
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,800 ratings — published 2002
Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope - and How to Find Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.37 — 813 ratings — published 1990
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,368 ratings — published 2012
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 157,063 ratings — published 1985
The Planets (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,935 ratings — published 2005
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.26 — 44,239 ratings — published 2005
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,035 ratings — published 2004
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,123 ratings — published 2004
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,115 ratings — published 1997
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,861 ratings — published 1994
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 92 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 29,418 ratings — published 2002
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,763 ratings — published 1995
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,265 ratings — published 2011
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,490 ratings — published 2016
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,838 ratings — published 1993
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,563 ratings — published 1977
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.43 — 536 ratings — published 1994
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.17 — 64,581 ratings — published 2013
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,656 ratings — published 2016
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,870 ratings — published 1999
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.32 — 732 ratings — published 2012
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End... (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,253 ratings — published 2008
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,350 ratings — published 2010
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,637 ratings — published 2018
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,008 ratings — published 2012
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,173 ratings — published 1988
The Stars: A New Way to See Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,056 ratings — published 1952
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,195 ratings — published 2002
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,609 ratings — published 1994
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,934,774 ratings — published 2021
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,488 ratings — published 2018
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,603 ratings — published 2023
Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.49 — 986 ratings — published 2008
“My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?”
― Frammenti e lettere
― Frammenti e lettere
“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise.
I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life.”
― Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life.”
― Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
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