15 Best physics books like Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek

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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By: Frank Wilczek

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“ Fundamentals  might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes …

"The universe is a strange place, and we're all in it together."

-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

"Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many as neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is a worthy compliment to the universe beyond."

-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

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1. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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2. 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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3. The Character of Physical Law

By: Richard P. Feynman , James Gleick

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University & recorded for TV by the BBC,… read more

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4. 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

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5. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: William Egginton

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more

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  • audiobook
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6. 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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7. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more

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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

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8. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

By: Steven H. Strogatz

4.30

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more

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"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

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9. The World According to Physics

By: Jim Al-Khalili

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinat… read more

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"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"Let me first make two important assumptions, which I will discuss in more detail later on, but will now just say that they are both supported strongly by observational evidence: (1) that the laws of …"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

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10. 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

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11. 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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"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-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

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12. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

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13. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By: Sabine Hossenfelder

3.92

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more

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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

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14. The Joy of Science

By: Jim Al-Khalili

3.61

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 les… read more

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15. 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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16. 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

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17. Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By: Frank Wilczek

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“ Fundamentals  might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes … read more

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"The universe is a strange place, and we're all in it together."

-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

"Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many as neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is…"

-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

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18. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology

By: Paul Nurse

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and the… read more

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Cover of Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond by Laura Mersini-Houghton

19. Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond

By: Laura Mersini-Houghton

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics." —The Washington Po… read more

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Cover of Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin

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

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21. Rasul dracului

By: Cristian Tudor Popescu

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

„Dictatura este un sistem în care simplii cetățeni trăiesc într-o condiție a ființei apropiată de a… read more

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18 must-read audiobook books like Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek

Transform Your Habits

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

Michio Kaku

4.10

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Paul C.W. Davies , Werner Heisenberg

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Sean Carroll

4.18

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Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Lee Smolin , Henry Reich

2.00

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