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.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves
Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
The Dinosaur Expert
Genetics 101: From Chromosomes and the Double Helix to Cloning and DNA Tests, Everything You Need to Know about Genes
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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
    The Coming Storm
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery Book 1)
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
    The Other Einstein
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    The Thing About Jellyfish
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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    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
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Grand Design

    Simon Winchester
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    Isaac Newton
    “ If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton

    Albert Einstein
    “ Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. ”
    ― Albert Einstein

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