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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 413 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,192 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,246 ratings — published 2011
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,965 ratings — published 1976
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,207 ratings — published 2003
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,485 ratings — published 1980
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 192,492 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 570,742 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 241,621 ratings — published 1985
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,389 ratings — published 1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,131 ratings — published 1997
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 201,699 ratings — published 2017
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 154 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,334 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,538 ratings — published 2008
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 218,449 ratings — published 2017
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 78,946 ratings — published 1995
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 214,556 ratings — published 1985
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 280,397 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,770 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,302 ratings — published 1986
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,435 ratings — published 1987
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,640 ratings — published 2009
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 111,980 ratings — published 2010
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,474 ratings — published 2016
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 888,921 ratings — published 2005
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,093 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,758 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,176 ratings — published 2004
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,127 ratings — published 2008
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,953 ratings — published 1997
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,885 ratings — published 1979
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,318 ratings — published 2019
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 235,861 ratings — published 2003
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,630 ratings — published 1999
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,745 ratings — published 2016
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 616,713 ratings — published 2005
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,752 ratings — published 1999
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,957 ratings — published 2014
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 851,058 ratings — published 2008
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 85 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,334 ratings — published 2010
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,648 ratings — published 1859
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,847 ratings — published 2001
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 846,960 ratings — published 2000
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 28,498 ratings — published 2004
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,487 ratings — published 2018
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,304 ratings — published 1994
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 38,886 ratings — published 1994
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,255 ratings — published 2018
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 77,867 ratings — published 2014
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 37,070 ratings — published 2017
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,729 ratings — published 2008
“Popular-science news about quantum mechanics is to me as baffling as it is frustrating. Hand me an equation, and I can deal with it. But if you tell me that quantum mechanics allows one to separate a cat from its grin or that an experiment shows "an irreconcilable mismatch between the friends and the Wigners," I'll back out of the room quietly before anyone demands I explain this mess. I have suffered through countless well-intended introductions to quantum mechanics featuring quantum shoes, quantum coins, quantum boxes, and entire zoos of quantum animals that went in and out of those boxes. If you actually understand those explanations, I salute you, because if I hadn't known already how quantum mechanics works, I still wouldn't know.”
― Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
― Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
“As the collected stories of the human journey, history offers the fundamental lesson that the challenges we face today aren't unique. No matter how much we flatter ourselves with self-absorption, we are but the continuation of the human saga.”
― From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future
― From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future
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