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.

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
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
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist's Bicycle Journey Across the United States
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
If Sharks Disappeared
Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive!

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    The God Delusion
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    “ The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ”
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    “ If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ”
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