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.

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
You Can Fix Your Brain: Just 1 Hour a Week to the Best Memory, Productivity, and Sleep You've Ever Had
The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
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
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    Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence
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    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
    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
    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)
    Grit
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    L'ordine del tempo
    Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
    The Thing About Jellyfish
    The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
    The Other Einstein
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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

    Sam Kean
    Sam Kean The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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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. ”
    ― Niels Bohr

    Isaac Asimov
    “ Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ”
    ― Isaac Asimov

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