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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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines
How to Be a Patient: The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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    The Only Woman in the Room
    Unsheltered
    The Fifth Risk
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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    The Selfish Gene
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    The Origin of Species
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    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

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    Douglas Adams
    “ 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. ”
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    Albert Einstein
    “ Never memorize something that you can look up. ”
    ― Albert Einstein

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