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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.21 — 493,277 ratings — published 1988
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.08 — 216,548 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,327,243 ratings — published 2011
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,055 ratings — published 2016
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,066 ratings — published 1962
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.21 — 435,375 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,696 ratings — published 1976
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,011 ratings — published 2014
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.18 — 295,707 ratings — published 2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,035 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.13 — 827,895 ratings — published 2010
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.40 — 163,548 ratings — published 1980
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,538 ratings — published 1859
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.26 — 223,205 ratings — published 1985
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,316 ratings — published 2018
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,353 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,081 ratings — published 1995
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 23 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 3.99 — 28,124 ratings — published 2017
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,151 ratings — published 2014
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.31 — 104,729 ratings — published 2019
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.27 — 87,283 ratings — published 2018
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,625 ratings — published 2016
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,687 ratings — published 2014
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,470 ratings — published 1997
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.17 — 615,898 ratings — published 2011
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,348 ratings — published 2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.36 — 238,229 ratings — published 2017
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,685 ratings — published 2013
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,837 ratings — published 1994
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,121 ratings — published 1987
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.06 — 248,527 ratings — published 2003
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,073 ratings — published 1999
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,420 ratings — published 2018
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,538 ratings — published 2016
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.40 — 288,982 ratings — published 2018
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,544 ratings — published 1999
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.12 — 455,940 ratings — published 2015
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,942 ratings — published 2016
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.04 — 254,217 ratings — published 1985
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,554 ratings — published 2004
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,806 ratings — published 2021
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.33 — 181,820 ratings — published 2019
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,284 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,348 ratings — published 2017
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 16 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,965 ratings — published 2010
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,448 ratings — published 2010
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,832 ratings — published 2010
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 3.79 — 16,736 ratings — published 2023
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,841 ratings — published 2019
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as science-and-technology)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,581 ratings — published 1999
“It’s too pragmatic for me,” Valenti said. “The know-how is good enough for technology, not for science.”
― The Gasp
― The Gasp
“Energy and Ethics (The Sonnet)
One AA battery lights up a house with an LED,
Or it can be used to set fire to it with a spark.
Energy has no ethical polarity, only potential,
Ethics of energy lie in the hands of its wielder.
Society just needs an excuse to escape the blame,
Sometimes they blame science, other times politics.
The real problem is none but the society itself,
Particularly our age-old selfish histrionics.
No society is born human, not yet anyway,
It falls on the original humans to make it human.
Choose science, faith, politics or civil service,
Touch of a human makes medicine even out of poison.
Science doesn't define the scientist, scientist defines the science.
Hence I'm a servant scientist who uses science for deliverance.”
― The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
One AA battery lights up a house with an LED,
Or it can be used to set fire to it with a spark.
Energy has no ethical polarity, only potential,
Ethics of energy lie in the hands of its wielder.
Society just needs an excuse to escape the blame,
Sometimes they blame science, other times politics.
The real problem is none but the society itself,
Particularly our age-old selfish histrionics.
No society is born human, not yet anyway,
It falls on the original humans to make it human.
Choose science, faith, politics or civil service,
Touch of a human makes medicine even out of poison.
Science doesn't define the scientist, scientist defines the science.
Hence I'm a servant scientist who uses science for deliverance.”
― The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
