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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 474,414 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,237,003 ratings — published 2011
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.37 — 222,383 ratings — published 2017
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.22 — 418,457 ratings — published 2003
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,305 ratings — published 1859
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,296 ratings — published 1976
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.14 — 193,968 ratings — published 2014
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.40 — 157,640 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.08 — 204,104 ratings — published 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.17 — 578,849 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 797,550 ratings — published 2010
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,812 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.04 — 452,469 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.19 — 284,371 ratings — published 2015
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,081 ratings — published 2016
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,100 ratings — published 2001
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,633 ratings — published 1995
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 237,911 ratings — published 2003
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,877 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 113,069 ratings — published 2010
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,267,508 ratings — published 2011
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.27 — 216,051 ratings — published 1985
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.05 — 243,752 ratings — published 1985
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,195 ratings — published 2018
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.51 — 167,441 ratings — published 2013
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.90 — 281,672 ratings — published 2006
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,017,464 ratings — published 2021
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,896 ratings — published 2009
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,587 ratings — published 2014
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,074 ratings — published 2010
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.20 — 22,913 ratings — published 1916
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,934 ratings — published 2002
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,698 ratings — published 1987
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,391 ratings — published 2004
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.99 — 65,822 ratings — published 2014
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,550 ratings — published 2016
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,326 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 — 75,885 ratings — published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,635 ratings — published 1962
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,688 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,169 ratings — published 1979
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.36 — 269,698 ratings — published 2014
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.31 — 97,861 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 4.18 — 31,236 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 — 18,009 ratings — published 2011
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 3.88 — 93,729 ratings — published 2011
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,594 ratings — published 2004
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,532 ratings — published 1986
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as scientific)
avg rating 4.34 — 164,059 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 — 39,609 ratings — published 2018
“Yay, science.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
― The Sun Is Also a Star
“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
