Chris Young
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Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
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Aristotle’s ideas were falsified by Galileo’s, whose ideas were replaced by Newton’s, whose ideas were modified by Einstein. And Einstein’s own theory of relativity broke down at the subatomic level—in the imperceptible land of tiny
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“Intelligence evolves to gives us an advantage over the other animals on our planet. But evolution is lazy. Once a problem is solved, the trait stops evolving.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“No one can tell that he may not some day set a stone rolling or take or neglect some ordinary step which in its consequences will alter the history of the world.”
― The World Crisis Vol 2: 1915
― The World Crisis Vol 2: 1915
Non Fiction Book Club
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This group is for anyone who enjoys Non Fiction. Genres discussed here include Histories, Autobiographies, Biographies, Memoirs, Science and Technolog ...more
NonFiction Pulitzers
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A group to read the General Nonfiction, Biography/Autobiography, and History Books that won or were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Goodreads Los Angeles
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A group for Los Angeles readers and writers.
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