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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 482,449 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,276,894 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.22 — 425,547 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,799 ratings — published 1976
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.01 — 122,563 ratings — published 1859
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.37 — 229,462 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.14 — 196,983 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.40 — 159,923 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.08 — 209,124 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.17 — 594,840 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 810,063 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,599 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.04 — 460,998 ratings — published 1997
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,261 ratings — published 2016
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,249,296 ratings — published 2021
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 289,604 ratings — published 2015
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 80,906 ratings — published 1995
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,528 ratings — published 2001
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 242,034 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.05 — 248,079 ratings — published 1985
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,303,698 ratings — published 2011
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,138 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,222 ratings — published 2010
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,382 ratings — published 2006
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 218,945 ratings — published 1985
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.51 — 176,618 ratings — published 2013
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,931 ratings — published 2014
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 88,425 ratings — published 2018
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,294 ratings — published 2009
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,116 ratings — published 1916
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,644 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,761 ratings — published 2004
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 67,474 ratings — published 2014
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,442 ratings — published 2002
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,179 ratings — published 1987
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.35 — 287,311 ratings — published 2014
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,205 ratings — published 2016
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,645 ratings — published 2008
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 30,171 ratings — published 1962
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,775 ratings — published 2004
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,969 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,809 ratings — published 1979
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.31 — 100,640 ratings — published 2019
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,086 ratings — published 2016
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.00 — 18,127 ratings — published 2011
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,360 ratings — published 1995
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,499 ratings — published 2011
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,908 ratings — published 1986
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,049 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 171,712 ratings — published 2019
“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems of philosophy, of religion, or of ethics, are of this character. Consider, for example, the problem of the freedom of the will. You maintain that you are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road. I defy you to set up a single objective criterion by which you can prove after you have made the turn that you might have made the other. The problem has no meaning in the sphere of objective activity; it only relates to my personal subjective feelings while making the decision.”
― The Nature of Physical Theory
― The Nature of Physical Theory
“[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.”
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A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.”
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