Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
By: Brian Greene
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of …
Want to Read $ 7.99"Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones."-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
"Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones."-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
"The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, experimentation, and theorizing, will likely be expressed by a handful of symbols arranged in a small collection of mathematical equations. That is an elegant universe."-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
"The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, experimentation, and theorizing, will likely be expressed by a handful of symbols arranged in a small collection of mathematical equations. That is an elegant universe."-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
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1. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan traces our exploration of space and suggests that our very… read more
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"Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
"I remind myself that madmen really exist. Sometimes they achieve the highest levels of political power in modern industrial nations."-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
2. The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
By: Sean Carroll
4.18
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in… read more
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"Life is short, and certainty never happens."-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries."-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it’s a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It’s a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments …"-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in g…"-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
3. The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
By: Bertrand Russell , Karl Marx , George Orwell , Richard Dawkins , Mark Twain , H.P. Lovecraft , Thomas Hardy , Omar Khayyám , Ian McEwan , Penn Jillette , George Eliot , John Updike , Carl Sagan , Christopher Hitchens , Sigmund Freud , A.C. Grayling , Joseph Conrad , David Hume , Daniel C. Dennett , Charles Darwin , Sam Harris , Albert Einstein , Salman Rushdie , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Emma Goldman , Steven Weinberg , Anatole France , John Stuart Mill , Martin Gardner , Victor J. Stenger , James Boswell , H.L. Mencken , Thomas Hobbes , Leslie Stephen , Philip Larkin , Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Baruch Spinoza , Lucretius , A.J. Ayer , Carl van Doren , John Betjeman , Ibn Warraq , Michael Shermer , Chapman Cohen , J.L. Mackie , Charles Templeton , Elizabeth S. Anderson
4.03
Format: 525 pages, Paperback
«Οι οπαδοί των νεράιδων δεν χτυπάνε την πόρτα σου για να σε προσηλυτίσουν. Δεν απαιτούν να διδάσκετ… read more
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"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you pro…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
"By now the valley of the shadow of doubt was overrunneth with skepticism, so God became angry, so angry that God lost His temper and cursed the first humans, telling them to go forth and multiply the…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
"The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation but the wrong culprit. Human sacr…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so mod…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
4. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
By: Michio Kaku
4.09
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hype… read more
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"In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true. Emotions and feelings may well be nonverbal a…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
"But on the question of whether the robots will eventually take over, he { Rodney A. Brooks } says that this will probably not happen, for a variety of reasons. First, no one is going to accidentally …"-Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
"Maybe somewhere telepaths walked the Earth, but I wasn't one of them. In the process, I began to realize that the wondrous exploits of telepaths were probably impossible--at least without outside ass…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
"Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On …"-Michio Kaku, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
5. Black Holes and Baby Universes
By: Stephen Hawking
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
NY Timesbestseller. 13 extraordinary essays shed new light on the mysteries of the universe & on on… read more
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6. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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7. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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8. From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
By: Sean Carroll
3.50
Format: None pages,
Twenty years after Stephen Hawking's 9-million-copy selling A Brief History of Time, pioneering the… read more
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9. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
10. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
By: Michio Kaku
4.10
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth… read more
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11. Quantum Supremacy
By: Michio Kaku
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more
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12. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
13. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
By: Thomas Hertog
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more
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"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
14. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
15. The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.16
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Everything we now know about the universe-from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxi… read more
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16. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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17. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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18. Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
By: Brian Greene
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of … read more
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"Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones."-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
"The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, e…"-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
19. The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
By: Michio Kaku
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future i… read more
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"The notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Thee notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Astronomers suspect that the Oort Cloud could extend as far as three light-years from our solar system. That is more than halfway to the nearest stars, the Centauri triple star system, which is sligh…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
20. Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
By: Lee Smolin
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A daring new vision of the quantum universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that may… read more
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"Put this way, almost every physical observable potentially conveys information. This definition would imply that "information" is present every time the values of two physical variables are correlate…"-Lee Smolin, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
21. The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us (The Shortest History Series)
By: David Baker
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly … read more
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