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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 3159 times as science)
avg rating 4.02 — 651,262 ratings — published 2010
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 3083 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 164,320 ratings — published 1980
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by Charles Darwin (shelved 2853 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 158,428 ratings — published 1859
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by Brian Greene (shelved 2834 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 72,479 ratings — published 1999
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2189 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 248,109 ratings — published 2003
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by Randall Munroe (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2172 times as science)
avg rating 4.15 — 170,364 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2017 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 72,816 ratings — published 2009
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by Richard Feynman (shelved 1960 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 168,053 ratings — published 1984
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 1847 times as science)
avg rating 4.00 — 105,165 ratings — published 2010
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1841 times as science)
avg rating 3.88 — 307,136 ratings — published 2006
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by Sam Kean (shelved 1753 times as science)
avg rating 3.89 — 76,387 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by Brian Greene (shelved 1667 times as science)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,947 ratings — published 2003
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1656 times as science)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,824 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver Sacks (shelved 1640 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 221,583 ratings — published 1985
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by Siddhartha Mukherjee (shelved 1539 times as science)
avg rating 4.27 — 133,542 ratings — published 2010
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1426 times as science)
avg rating 3.82 — 85,680 ratings — published 2008
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by Neil deGrasse Tyson (shelved 1389 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 28,069 ratings — published 2006
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter (shelved 1332 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 94,104 ratings — published 1979
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel (Hardcover)
by Michio Kaku (shelved 1321 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 61,988 ratings — published 2008
Bad Science (Paperback)
by Ben Goldacre (shelved 1314 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,575 ratings — published 2008
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 1272 times as science)
avg rating 4.31 — 59,127 ratings — published 1994
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by Thomas S. Kuhn (shelved 1209 times as science)
avg rating 3.98 — 45,167 ratings — published 1962
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by Matt Ridley (shelved 1200 times as science)
avg rating 4.01 — 50,395 ratings — published 1999
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by Lawrence M. Krauss (shelved 1169 times as science)
avg rating 3.92 — 52,277 ratings — published 2012
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1158 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 44,742 ratings — published 2004
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by Richard Preston (shelved 1142 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,588 ratings — published 1994
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Hardcover)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1102 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 67,738 ratings — published 2013
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by Daniel Kahneman (shelved 1099 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 415,557 ratings — published 2011
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by Dava Sobel (shelved 1067 times as science)
avg rating 3.95 — 71,263 ratings — published 1995
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by Neil Shubin (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1060 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 37,873 ratings — published 2008
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by Yuval Noah Harari (shelved 1027 times as science)
avg rating 4.37 — 140,225 ratings — published 2011
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by Alan Weisman (shelved 958 times as science)
avg rating 3.79 — 76,045 ratings — published 2007
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by Stephen Hawking (shelved 948 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 322,685 ratings — published 1987
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by Brian Greene (shelved 945 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 37,876 ratings — published 2011
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author) (shelved 944 times as science)
avg rating 3.57 — 61,101 ratings — published 2005
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) (shelved 941 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,231 ratings — published 2011
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by Carl Sagan (shelved 894 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,440 ratings — published 1977
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by Siddhartha Mukherjee (shelved 885 times as science)
avg rating 4.34 — 53,010 ratings — published 2016
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 882 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 368,882 ratings — published 2003
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by Michio Kaku (shelved 846 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 38,573 ratings — published 2004
Hyperspace (Paperback)
by Michio Kaku (shelved 846 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 35,154 ratings — published 1994
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)
by Steven D. Levitt (shelved 840 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 807,188 ratings — published 2005
The Martian (Hardcover)
by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author) (shelved 804 times as science)
avg rating 4.38 — 662,247 ratings — published 2014
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 764 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 34,640 ratings — published 1991
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by James D. Watson (shelved 752 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 23,575 ratings — published 1968
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver Sacks (shelved 752 times as science)
avg rating 3.89 — 89,844 ratings — published 2007
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Hardcover)
by Michio Kaku (shelved 750 times as science)
avg rating 3.99 — 31,195 ratings — published 2011
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Paperback)
by Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author) (shelved 741 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,468 ratings — published 2001
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell (shelved 737 times as science)
avg rating 3.89 — 598,271 ratings — published 2005
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by Steven Johnson (shelved 728 times as science)
avg rating 3.91 — 80,965 ratings — published 2006
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
Debate Highlights-My Musings on Life in General
60 chapters — updated Jun 25, 2011 09:08AM — 68 people liked it
60 chapters — updated Jun 25, 2011 09:08AM — 68 people liked it
The Incredible Origins of the Onyx Sun (Sample Chapters)
3 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33PM — 2 people liked it
3 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33PM — 2 people liked it
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