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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 478,707 ratings — published 1988
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,622 ratings — published 1976
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,776 ratings — published 1980
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,959 ratings — published 1859
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,258,352 ratings — published 2011
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.08 — 206,653 ratings — published 2017
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,380 ratings — published 2010
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.22 — 422,152 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,952 ratings — published 1997
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.14 — 195,586 ratings — published 2014
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,900 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.29 — 80,302 ratings — published 1995
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,303 ratings — published 2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,220 ratings — published 1999
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.26 — 87,332 ratings — published 2018
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,015 ratings — published 1916
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.37 — 225,899 ratings — published 2017
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,902 ratings — published 1962
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,126 ratings — published 2009
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as sciences)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,717 ratings — published 2014
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 33 times as sciences)
avg rating 3.92 — 56,195 ratings — published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,674 ratings — published 2016
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.05 — 246,048 ratings — published 1985
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,249 ratings — published 2014
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,188 ratings — published 2010
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,735 ratings — published 2017
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,726 ratings — published 1986
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,878 ratings — published 1994
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,649 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.18 — 287,129 ratings — published 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.17 — 587,429 ratings — published 2011
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,574 ratings — published 2004
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,843 ratings — published 2015
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,374 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,924 ratings — published 2003
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,289 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,400 ratings — published 1994
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as sciences)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,355 ratings — published 2007
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,013 ratings — published 1999
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,963 ratings — published 1987
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,470 ratings — published 1985
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.26 — 42,968 ratings — published 2005
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,244 ratings — published 2006
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,283 ratings — published 1995
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,467 ratings — published 1994
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,692 ratings — published 2004
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,502 ratings — published 1979
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as sciences)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,104 ratings — published 2011
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.31 — 99,240 ratings — published 2019
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as sciences)
avg rating 4.08 — 55,656 ratings — published 2014
“The greater the complexity of engineering, the greater the architectural density of technology, and the greater the possibility of synthesizing and organically mimicking materials.”
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“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance
inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch
by inch America is giving itself
to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness
lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch.
You aren’t alone. All of the continents used to be
one body. You aren’t alone. Go to sleep.
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
and
History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.”
―
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance
inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch
by inch America is giving itself
to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness
lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch.
You aren’t alone. All of the continents used to be
one body. You aren’t alone. Go to sleep.
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
and
History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.”
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