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.

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist's Bicycle Journey Across the United States
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From
Transgénicos sin miedo: Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre ellos de la mano de la ciencia
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
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

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  • When Breath Becomes Air
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Modern Romance
    Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    Chemistry
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
    Lab Girl
    Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
    Grit
    Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
    The Last Days of Night
    Animal Models in Cardiovascular Research by David R.  GrossCosmos by Carl SaganThe Systems View of Life by Fritjof CapraA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingPale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
    Science Writing
    152 books — 139 voters
    Snow Crash by Neal StephensonNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeI, Robot by Isaac Asimov
    Computers in Literature
    208 books — 199 voters

    Dune by Frank HerbertFoundation by Isaac AsimovHyperion by Dan SimmonsRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsEnder's Game by Orson Scott Card
    Space Opera
    247 books — 364 voters

    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
    Best Nature Books
    545 books — 452 voters
    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
    Best Cognitive Science Books
    242 books — 297 voters

    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
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    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 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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    Kate Ascher The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper
    Her Favorite Books About Architecture: The urban planner demystifies the skyscraper in her new work, The Heights, and offers five books about buildings.
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    Douglas Adams
    “ Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. ”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “ The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925. ”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

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    My Story
    5 chapters — updated Jun 22, 2016 03:59AM — 0 people liked it

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