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.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges and Refused to Give Up
The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us about Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
The New Ocean: The Fate of Life in a Changing Sea
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River

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    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Dragon Teeth
    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
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Grit
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
    Lab Girl
    Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
    The Dollmaker (The Forgotten Files, #2)
    Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
    The Last Days of Night
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    Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickCount Zero by William GibsonMona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
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    A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
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    A Brief History of Time
    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 Grand Design
    The God Delusion
    The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    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

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    Niels Bohr
    “ An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ”
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    Albert Einstein
    “ The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64 ”
    ― Albert Einstein

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