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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 492,840 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,452 ratings — published 1859
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,970 ratings — published 2015
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,529 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 434,980 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,565 ratings — published 2018
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,960 ratings — published 2014
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 55,299 ratings — published 2020
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,020 ratings — published 2009
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.50 — 188,801 ratings — published 2013
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,325,253 ratings — published 2011
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 216,229 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 200,855 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 163,378 ratings — published 1980
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,851 ratings — published 2003
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,096 ratings — published 1987
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,244 ratings — published 2017
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 63,490 ratings — published 2015
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,040 ratings — published 2014
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,446 ratings — published 1986
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,031 ratings — published 1962
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,494 ratings — published 2022
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,573 ratings — published 2016
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,707 ratings — published 1949
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,276 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,999 ratings — published 2016
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,137 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 827,226 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,008 ratings — published 1999
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,864 ratings — published 2008
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,278 ratings — published 2006
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 38,946 ratings — published 2022
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 237,921 ratings — published 2017
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,322 ratings — published 2016
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,019 ratings — published 2004
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,062 ratings — published 1991
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,369 ratings — published 1916
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,879 ratings — published 2022
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,600 ratings — published 2019
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,141 ratings — published 1962
Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,423 ratings — published 1979
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,193 ratings — published 1995
Why Evolution Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,401 ratings — published 2008
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 23,862 ratings — published 2010
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,898 ratings — published 2007
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,479 ratings — published 2001
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 17,417 ratings — published 2014
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,579 ratings — published 2016
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,254 ratings — published 2012
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 82,983 ratings — published 1995
“A shadow does not need the object to which it belongs to move for it to move.”
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“Jedes Volk, das sich an einer von der europäischen Naturwissenschaft festgesetzten Notenskala messen lässt, steht immer als Kulturverbund höherer Affen da.
Das Notengeben ist sinnlos. Jeder Versuch, die Kulturen nebeneinander zu stellen, um zu bestimmen, welche davon am höchsten entwickelt ist, führt immer nur dazu, daß die westliche Kultur noch einen weiteren beschissenen Versuch unternimmt, den Haß auf ihren eigenen Schatten auf andere zu projizieren.
Es gibt nur eine Art und Weise, eine andere Kultur zu verstehen. Sie zu _leben_. In sie einzuziehen, darum zu bitten, als Gast geduldet zu werden, die Sprache zu lernen. Irgendwann kommt dann vielleicht das Verständnis. Es wird dann immer wortlos sein. In dem Moment, in dem man das Fremde begreift, verliert man den Drang, es zu erklären. Ein Phänomen erklären heißt, sich davon zu entfernen. Wen ich anfange, mit mir selber oder anderen von Qaanaaq zu reden, habe ich fast wieder verloren, was nie richtig mein gewesen ist.”
― Smilla's Sense of Snow
Das Notengeben ist sinnlos. Jeder Versuch, die Kulturen nebeneinander zu stellen, um zu bestimmen, welche davon am höchsten entwickelt ist, führt immer nur dazu, daß die westliche Kultur noch einen weiteren beschissenen Versuch unternimmt, den Haß auf ihren eigenen Schatten auf andere zu projizieren.
Es gibt nur eine Art und Weise, eine andere Kultur zu verstehen. Sie zu _leben_. In sie einzuziehen, darum zu bitten, als Gast geduldet zu werden, die Sprache zu lernen. Irgendwann kommt dann vielleicht das Verständnis. Es wird dann immer wortlos sein. In dem Moment, in dem man das Fremde begreift, verliert man den Drang, es zu erklären. Ein Phänomen erklären heißt, sich davon zu entfernen. Wen ich anfange, mit mir selber oder anderen von Qaanaaq zu reden, habe ich fast wieder verloren, was nie richtig mein gewesen ist.”
― Smilla's Sense of Snow
