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.

The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear
You Are Never Alone
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
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    The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why Ai, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game
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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 Fifth Risk
    The Only Woman in the Room
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    A Mind of Her Own
    Unsheltered
    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Lost and Wanted
    Brief Answers to the Big Questions
    The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
    Interesting and Readable NonFiction
    1,321 books — 568 voters

    Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. CormenStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold AbelsonThe C Programming Language by Brian W. KernighanThe Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set by Donald Ervin KnuthThe Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
    Essential Books of Computer Science
    170 books — 227 voters
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
    Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
    1,436 books — 3,144 voters

    A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
    Best Nature Books
    650 books — 551 voters
    The Undiscovered Self by Carl JungNietzsche by Rüdiger SafranskiThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnEncounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976 by Heinrich Wiegand PetzetTesla by Margaret Cheney
    Scientists and Philosophers
    229 books — 217 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

    Isaac Newton
    “ If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton

    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “ The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. ”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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