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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 483,337 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,200 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 426,387 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 323 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,076 ratings — published 1976
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 160,200 ratings — published 1980
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 197,298 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 596,605 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 248,585 ratings — published 1985
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 209,712 ratings — published 2017
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,733 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,924 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 154 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,154 ratings — published 2015
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 230,304 ratings — published 2017
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,011 ratings — published 2008
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,059 ratings — published 1995
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 219,249 ratings — published 1985
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,677 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,701 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,953 ratings — published 1986
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,236 ratings — published 1987
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,326 ratings — published 2009
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,469 ratings — published 2010
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 88,669 ratings — published 2018
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,392 ratings — published 2016
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,586 ratings — published 2005
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,690 ratings — published 2008
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 811,699 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,807 ratings — published 2004
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,863 ratings — published 1979
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,647 ratings — published 1997
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 67,652 ratings — published 2014
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 100,972 ratings — published 2019
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,190 ratings — published 2016
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,137 ratings — published 1999
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 873,988 ratings — published 2008
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 56,664 ratings — published 2010
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 242,585 ratings — published 2003
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,172 ratings — published 1999
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 624,945 ratings — published 2005
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 122,713 ratings — published 1859
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,357 ratings — published 2018
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,570 ratings — published 2001
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,221 ratings — published 1994
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,809 ratings — published 2004
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 859,172 ratings — published 2000
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,095 ratings — published 2014
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,792 ratings — published 1994
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 179,127 ratings — published 2018
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,206 ratings — published 2017
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,392 ratings — published 2020
“Lysenkoism may be useful only because it provides a lesson. Whether we like it or not, the days of the independent scientist and of independent science are about over. The more important science becomes in the lives of individuals and of nations, the more it will need popular support and will have to submit to social control. But the forms and techniques of this support and control have not yet been devised and tested. The problem is a new one. The Soviet rulers have tried a solution, but their solution has resulted in lysenkoism, and thus proved to be a dismal failure.”
― The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
― The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
“Popular-science news about quantum mechanics is to me as baffling as it is frustrating. Hand me an equation, and I can deal with it. But if you tell me that quantum mechanics allows one to separate a cat from its grin or that an experiment shows "an irreconcilable mismatch between the friends and the Wigners," I'll back out of the room quietly before anyone demands I explain this mess. I have suffered through countless well-intended introductions to quantum mechanics featuring quantum shoes, quantum coins, quantum boxes, and entire zoos of quantum animals that went in and out of those boxes. If you actually understand those explanations, I salute you, because if I hadn't known already how quantum mechanics works, I still wouldn't know.”
― Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
― Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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