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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 7517 times as science)
avg rating 4.16 — 234,288 ratings — published 1988
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 5266 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 244,761 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 4471 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 116,726 ratings — published 1976
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3998 times as science)
avg rating 4.36 — 98,255 ratings — published 1980
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3994 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 494,687 ratings — published 2010
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3435 times as science)
avg rating 3.99 — 84,734 ratings — published 1859
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3400 times as science)
avg rating 4.07 — 78,934 ratings — published 1999
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3196 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 70,563 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3113 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 97,476 ratings — published 2014
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 2925 times as science)
avg rating 4.27 — 50,416 ratings — published 1995
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2736 times as science)
avg rating 4.45 — 225,775 ratings — published 2011
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2729 times as science)
avg rating 4.06 — 149,705 ratings — published 2003
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2508 times as science)
avg rating 4.28 — 126,112 ratings — published 1985
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2426 times as science)
avg rating 4.17 — 42,779 ratings — published 2009
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2320 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 55,154 ratings — published 2010
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2230 times as science)
avg rating 4.02 — 229,560 ratings — published 1997
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2222 times as science)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,697 ratings — published 2010
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2172 times as science)
avg rating 3.90 — 202,720 ratings — published 2006
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2124 times as science)
avg rating 4.31 — 65,057 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 2119 times as science)
avg rating 4.05 — 138,356 ratings — published 1985
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 2016 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,411 ratings — published 2003
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 1985 times as science)
avg rating 3.94 — 44,233 ratings — published 2010
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1889 times as science)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,731 ratings — published 2014
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1874 times as science)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,384 ratings — published 2016
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 1758 times as science)
avg rating 4.09 — 27,529 ratings — published 1986
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 1677 times as science)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,642 ratings — published 1979
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 1657 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 22,470 ratings — published 2006
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 1646 times as science)
avg rating 3.84 — 46,361 ratings — published 2008
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1622 times as science)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,505 ratings — published 2008
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1619 times as science)
avg rating 4.14 — 29,944 ratings — published 2001
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1608 times as science)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,613 ratings — published 1994
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1603 times as science)
avg rating 4.07 — 32,165 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1565 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 212,111 ratings — published 2011
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1553 times as science)
avg rating 4.00 — 19,850 ratings — published 1962
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1501 times as science)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,908 ratings — published 1987
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1487 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 25,185 ratings — published 2014
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1475 times as science)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,577 ratings — published 1999
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1464 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,265 ratings — published 2012
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1373 times as science)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,305 ratings — published 2004
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1365 times as science)
avg rating 4.11 — 85,351 ratings — published 1994
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1326 times as science)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,010 ratings — published 2013
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1324 times as science)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,060 ratings — published 2008
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1279 times as science)
avg rating 3.96 — 48,360 ratings — published 1995
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1267 times as science)
avg rating 4.29 — 72,565 ratings — published 2015
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1207 times as science)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,975 ratings — published 2016
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1165 times as science)
avg rating 4.18 — 15,672 ratings — published 1916
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1156 times as science)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,241 ratings — published 2011
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1155 times as science)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,067 ratings — published 2011
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1149 times as science)
avg rating 4.20 — 16,052 ratings — published 1962
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1140 times as science)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,753 ratings — published 2005
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“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.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Elemental Evils: Natural Enemies (book 1)
8 chapters — updated May 13, 2015 06:30PM — 27 people liked it
8 chapters — updated May 13, 2015 06:30PM — 27 people liked it
Debate Highlights-My Musings on Life in General
60 chapters — updated Jun 25, 2011 09:08AM — 68 people liked it
60 chapters — updated Jun 25, 2011 09:08AM — 68 people liked it
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