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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 478,669 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,258,117 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.22 — 422,114 ratings — published 2003
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,952 ratings — published 1859
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.37 — 225,826 ratings — published 2017
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,602 ratings — published 1976
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.14 — 195,571 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,767 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.08 — 206,629 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.17 — 587,348 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 803,821 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 — 102,216 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,913 ratings — published 1997
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,667 ratings — published 2016
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 287,100 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 — 80,299 ratings — published 1995
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,301 ratings — published 2001
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,100,465 ratings — published 2021
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 239,894 ratings — published 2003
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,284,481 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 — 114,177 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 — 246,018 ratings — published 1985
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.90 — 283,168 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 — 217,606 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 — 172,151 ratings — published 2013
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 87,320 ratings — published 2018
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,246 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,124 ratings — published 2009
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,012 ratings — published 1916
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,376 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 — 40,573 ratings — published 2004
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,711 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 — 28,217 ratings — published 2002
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,960 ratings — published 1987
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,843 ratings — published 2016
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,461 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 — 76,275 ratings — published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,901 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 — 278,906 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 — 22,697 ratings — published 2004
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,816 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,499 ratings — published 1979
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.31 — 99,214 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 — 18,065 ratings — published 2011
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.88 — 94,097 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 — 41,726 ratings — published 1986
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,363 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,773 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 — 40,267 ratings — published 2018
“[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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“But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.”
― Principles Of General Physiology
― Principles Of General Physiology
