Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Animals Strike Curious Poses
Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
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The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have
A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

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  • When Breath Becomes Air
    Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space
    Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
    Lab Girl
    Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
    Gratitude
    The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
    Grit
    The Wright Brothers
    The Last Days of Night
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCoraline by Neil Gaiman
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    A Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Elegant Universe by Brian GreeneThe Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian GreenePale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
    Cosmology
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    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Ecological Rift by John Bellamy FosterQuiet by Susan CainThe Systems View of Life by Fritjof Capra
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    446 books — 378 voters
    The Martian by Andy WeirRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsFoundation by Isaac AsimovDune by Frank HerbertAltered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    The God Delusion
    The Grand Design
    The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
    Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

    Simon Winchester
    Simon Winchester Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
    His Favorite Books About the Sea: Grab a thick blanket and a hot toddy to read this journalist's favorite bedtime books about the sea, the briny subject of his new work of nonfiction, Atlantic.
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    Albert Einstein
    “ If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ”
    ― Albert Einstein

    Carl Sagan
    “ Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. ”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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