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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    The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them
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  • When Breath Becomes Air
    The Martian
    The Last Days of Night
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
    The Tumor: A Non-Legal Thriller
    Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
    The Wright Brothers
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    Lab Girl
    Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
    H is for Hawk
    Ego Is the Enemy
    Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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    The Grand Design
    The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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    The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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    Sam Kean The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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    Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
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    If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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