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.

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
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
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
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
The Day the Universe Exploded My Head: Poems to Take You Into Space and Back Again
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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
    A Mind of Her Own
    The Naturalist
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    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
    Lost and Wanted
    The Overstory
    The Other Einstein
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
    Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    Medicine and Literature
    1,381 books — 1,756 voters
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Undiscovered Self by Carl JungMemories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
    Most Engaging Scientific Nonfiction
    291 books — 266 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 — 584 voters
    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
    245 books — 399 voters

    The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingDivergent by Veronica RothTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    All Sorts Favourites
    1,028 books — 945 voters
    Salt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterA History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
    Histories of the Everyday
    243 books — 289 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

    Niels Bohr
    “ An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ”
    ― Niels Bohr

    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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