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.

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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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    Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
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    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century
    The Coming Storm
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
    Grit
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    Underground Knowledge
    1,016 books — 284 voters

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    Superhero Fiction
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    287 books — 255 voters
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    Scientists and Philosophers
    127 books — 212 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
    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

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    Simon Winchester Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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    Albert Einstein
    “ Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ”
    ― Albert Einstein

    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

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