Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
“Albert Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for the discovery of vitamin C, once offered the opinion that “life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest.”
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
― The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it—memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis (remembrance of a guest who tarried but a day)—the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? By whose command and act were this place and time allotted to me?”
― Pensées
― Pensées
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 338341 members
— last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Catarina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Catarina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,688 books
|
954 friends
206 books
|
47 friends
194 books
|
3,088 friends
754 books
|
351 friends
3,487 books
|
1,001 friends
657 books
|
16 friends
1,533 books
|
110 friends
1,258 books
|
1,542 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Catarina
Lists liked by Catarina