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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 478,622 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,257,890 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.22 — 422,088 ratings — published 2003
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,947 ratings — published 1859
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.37 — 225,793 ratings — published 2017
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,586 ratings — published 1976
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.14 — 195,559 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,756 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.08 — 206,609 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.17 — 587,253 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,790 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 — 102,213 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,868 ratings — published 1997
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,665 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 287,075 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 — 80,291 ratings — published 1995
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,294 ratings — published 2001
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,099,768 ratings — published 2021
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,859 ratings — published 2003
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,284,347 ratings — published 2011
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,013 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,169 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.05 — 245,995 ratings — published 1985
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.90 — 283,150 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 — 217,593 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 — 172,126 ratings — published 2013
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 87,303 ratings — published 2018
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,245 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,123 ratings — published 2009
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,011 ratings — published 1916
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,374 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 — 40,572 ratings — published 2004
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,703 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 — 28,216 ratings — published 2002
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,959 ratings — published 1987
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,839 ratings — published 2016
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,459 ratings — published 2008
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,274 ratings — published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,899 ratings — published 1962
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.35 — 278,836 ratings — published 2014
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 — 22,694 ratings — published 2004
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,813 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,493 ratings — published 1979
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.31 — 99,205 ratings — published 2019
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 — 18,063 ratings — published 2011
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,093 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 — 41,725 ratings — published 1986
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,360 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,746 ratings — published 2019
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,257 ratings — published 2018
“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.”
― Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
― Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...”
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