ListMuse's 100 Best Science Books of All Time

Stumbled (using, go figure, Stumble Upon) across this list of The 100 Best Science Books of All Time...good list, so here’s the first 25:

1. The Origin of the Species – Charles Darwin
2. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter – Richard Feynman
3. On Growth and Form – D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
4. Ideas and Opinions – Albert Einstein
5. Double Helix – James D. Watson
6. Lives of a Cell – Lewis Thomas
7. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas Kuhn
8. Knowledge and Wonder: Natural World as Man Knows It – Victor Weisskopf
9. What Evolution Is – Ernst Mayr
10. The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies – E.O. Wilson
11. The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
12. To Explain The World: The Discovery of Modern Science – Steven Weinberg
13. The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes – Denis Noble
14. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
15. Godel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter
16. King Solomon’s Ring – Konrad Lorenz
17. What is Life? – Erwin Schrodinger
18. The Making of the Atomic Bomb – Richard Rhodes
19. The Elegant Universe – Brian Greene
20. Atkins’ Molecules – Peter Atkins
21. Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
22. Against Method – Paul Feyerabend
23. Coming of Age in the Milky Way – Timothy Ferris
24. Wonderful Life – Steven Jay Gould
25. The Realm of the Nebulae – Edwin Hubble

If this kind of stuff turns your crank…check out the other 75, with such cool titles as Cosmos by Carl Sagan (say what you want, Cosmos is the bestselling science book EVER published in the English language), Chaos by James Gleick, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks (I love, love love Oliver Sacks – saddened when he passed recently),  and The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (one of my heroes and perhaps the most important Pulitzer Prize winning books I can ever recommend to anyone).

Peace…

MD

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