14 best-selling philosophy books like The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

By: Brian Greene

4.13

Format: 569 pages, Paperback

The fabric of the cosmos

"life"

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"life"

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

If you liked the philosophy plot in The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Grand Design

By: Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinow

4.06

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT THINKERS—A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE … read more

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"Suntem cu toții plăsmuiri ale visului cuiva."

-Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

"Suntem produsul fluctuațiilor cuantice din universul foarte timpuriu."

-Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

"Most laws of nature exist as part of a larger, interconnected system of laws."

-Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

"Noi creăm istoria prin observațiile noastre, iar nu istoria ne creează pe noi."

-Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

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2. Chaos: Making a New Science

By: James Gleick

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more

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"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."

-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

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3. Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

By: Stephen Hawking , Kip S. Thorne , None

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the … read more

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"Why are black holes so different from all other objects in the macroscopic Universe? Why are they, and they alone, so elegantly simple? If I knew the answer, it would probably tell me something very …"

-Stephen Hawking, Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

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4. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

By: Richard Dawkins , Well-illustrated

4.16

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Charles Darwin, whose 1859 masterpiece "On the Origin of Species" shook society to its core, would … read more

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"The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried"

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

"Of course they don't function as gills, but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes, with gills."

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

"Incidentally, I'm puzzled why, with so much oxygen about, thing didn't burst into flames all the time. Perhaps they did."

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

"It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes."

-Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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5. 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

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6. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

By: Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how e… read more

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"Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"أنا غير كفؤ للحديث عن اللاشيء، لأن رجال الدين والفلاسفة هم خبراء في لاشيء!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"...nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó."

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

"We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!"

-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

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7. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

By: Leonard Susskind

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a yo… read more

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8. The Selfish Gene

By: Richard Dawkins

4.16

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more

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"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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9. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

By: Brian Greene

4.13

Format: 569 pages, Paperback

The fabric of the cosmos read more

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"life"

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"наша история прошлого часто лишь информирует о наших переживаниях в настоящем."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

"полная скорость движения любого объекта в пространстве и во времени всегда в точности равна скорости света."

-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

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10. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more

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"Gullibility kills."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

11. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

By: Roger Penrose

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive… read more

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12. Cosmos

By: Carl Sagan

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousn… read more

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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

13. Hyperspace

By: Michio Kaku

4.18

Format: 342 pages,

How many dimensions do you live in? Three? Maybe that's all your commonsense sense perception perce… read more

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14. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

By: Michio Kaku

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us… read more

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15. A Brief History of Time

By: Stephen Hawking , Phạm Văn Thiều , None

4.21

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book … read more

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"God abhors a naked singularity."

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"There should be no boundary to human endeavor."

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado"

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"

-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

16. Three Roads To Quantum Gravity

By: Lee Smolin

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject."--Scientific American In Thr… read more

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17. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

By: John Gribbin

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more

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"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"

-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

18. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

By: Michio Kaku

3.75

Format: 273 pages,

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible--from death rays and force fields to inv… read more

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19. The Universe in a Nutshell

By: Stephen Hawking

4.18

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the… read more

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"Claramente, el crecimiento exponencial actual no puede continuar indefinidamente."

-Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell

"No creo que la especie humana haya llegado tan lejos sólo para eliminarse a sí misma cuando las cosas se están poniendo interesantes."

-Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell

"Se chegássemos ao fim da linha, o espírito humano definharia e morreria. Mas não creio que um dia sossegaremos: aumentaremos em complexidade, se não em profundidade, e seremos sempre o centro de um h…"

-Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell

"When Copernicus and Galileo discovered that the planets orbit the Sun rather than the Earth, and Newton discovered the laws that govern their motion, astrology became extremely implausible. Why shoul…"

-Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell

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20. A Briefer History of Time

By: Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinow

4.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scie… read more

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"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena - they no longer restrict themselves to Greek!"

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"طالما أن الكون له بداية سيكون في استطاعتنا افتراض أن له خالقًا. أما إذا كان الكون حقا مكتملا في حد ذاته، وليس له حد ولا حرف، فلن تكون له بداية ولا نهاية: فهو ببساطة موجود."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"There is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around…"

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

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21. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more

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"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

11 Top audiobook books like The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

Transform Your Habits

The Grand Design

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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.34

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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss

3.94

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Richard Dawkins

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4.50

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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

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4.21

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