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.

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Figuring
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Darwin Devolves : The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
Planets
Maker Comics: Bake Like a Pro!
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
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  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    The Naturalist
    The Only Woman in the Room
    The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
    Unsheltered
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    The Fifth Risk
    The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    The Overstory
    How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    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
    Best artificial intelligence books
    231 books — 391 voters
    Divergent by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothUglies by Scott WesterfeldThe Host by Stephenie MeyerDelirium by Lauren Oliver
    Best Books About Nanotechnology
    180 books — 737 voters

    The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George Orwell
    Works of Pure Genius
    486 books — 636 voters
    The Martian by Andy WeirRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsFoundation by Isaac AsimovDune by Frank HerbertRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
    best hard science fiction
    310 books — 592 voters

    Watchmen by Alan MooreSoon I Will Be Invincible by Austin GrossmanThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonBatman by Frank MillerHero by Perry Moore
    Superhero Fiction
    689 books — 1,140 voters
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittQuiet by Susan CainThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
    Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
    796 books — 608 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    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
    The Grand Design

    Simon Winchester
    Simon Winchester Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “ The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925. ”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

    Charles Darwin
    “ A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

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