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.

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
The Incurable Romantic and Other Tales of Madness and Desire
What Do They Do with All That Poo?
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life

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  • This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery Book 1)
    How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
    The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
    Grit
    When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    The Overstory
    Lab Girl
    Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
    Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
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    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
    Best General Science Books
    426 books — 411 voters

    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnNietzsche by Rüdiger SafranskiEncounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976 by Heinrich Wiegand PetzetThe Undiscovered Self by Carl Gustav JungTesla by Margaret Cheney
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    Try it!
    136 books — 151 voters

    2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeI, Robot by Isaac AsimovDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
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    Hyperion by Dan SimmonsDune by Frank HerbertEnder's Game by Orson Scott CardFoundation by Isaac AsimovCassaStar by Alex J. Cavanaugh
    Best Space Opera
    456 books — 1,017 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    The Origin of Species
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    The Grand Design
    The God Delusion

    Sam Kean
    Sam Kean The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
    His Favorite Science Books for Nonscientists: No need for a lab coat. Enjoy these picks from the science writer behind The Violinist's Thumb, an in-depth look at our genetic code.
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    Douglas Adams
    “ The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. ”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

    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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