The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that disti…
Want to Read $ 5.99"If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle."-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
"If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle."-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
"Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabulary, in how they express causation and feelings and personal responsibility, hence in how they shape our thoughts. There's no single purpose "best" language; instead, different languages are better suited for different purposes. For instance, it may not have been an accident that Plato and Aristotle wrote in Greek, while Kant wrote in German. The grammatical particles of those two languages, plus their ease in forming compound words, may have helped make them the preeminent languages of western philosophy. Another example, familiar to all of us who studied Latin, is that highly inflected languages (ones in which word endings suffice to indicate sentence structure) can use variations of word order to convey nuances impossible with English. Our English word order is severely constrained by having to serve as the main clue to sentence structure. If English becomes a world language, that won't be because English was necessarily the best language for diplomacy."-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
"Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabulary, in how they express causation and feelings and personal responsibility, hence in how they shape our thoughts. There's no single purpose "best" language; instead, different languages are better suited for different purposes. For instance, it may not have been an accident that Plato and Aristotle wrote in Greek, while Kant wrote in German. The grammatical particles of those two languages, plus their ease in forming compound words, may have helped make them the preeminent languages of western philosophy. Another example, familiar to all of us who studied Latin, is that highly inflected languages (ones in which word endings suffice to indicate sentence structure) can use variations of word order to convey nuances impossible with English. Our English word order is severely constrained by having to serve as the main clue to sentence structure. If English becomes a world language, that won't be because English was necessarily the best language for diplomacy."-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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1. Why Evolution Is True
By: Jerry A. Coyne
4.19
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized de… read more
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"These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve."-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
"Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves."-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
"If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31…"-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
"Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off…"-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
2. 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
3. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
By: Simon Singh
4.21
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five catacl… read more
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"All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable."-Simon Singh, Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
4. Climbing Mount Improbable
By: Richard Dawkins
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shap… read more
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- biology
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5. 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
6. 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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7. 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
8. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.07
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Bos… read more
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"Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. —Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995"-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
9. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
By: Richard P. Feynman , Roger Penrose
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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10. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehe… read more
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- anthropology
11. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that disti… read more
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- nonfiction
- popular science
- sociology
- nature
- anthropology
"If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle."-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
"Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabu…"-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
12. About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
By: Paul C.W. Davies
4.23
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
An elegant, witty, and engaging exploration of the riddle of time, which examines the consequences … read more
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" David Park is a physicist and philosopher at Williams College in Massachusetts with a lifelong interest in a time which he too thinks doesn't pass. For Park, the passage of time is not so much an il…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
"Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective tim…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
"Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and men…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
"Psychologists have devised some ingenious ways to help unpack the human "now." Consider how we run those jerky movie frames together into a smooth and continuous stream. This is known as the "phi phe…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
13. 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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14. 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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15. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
By: Steven Weinberg
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains to general… read more
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16. The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
By: Lee Smolin
4.04
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
What is string theory? Why does it matter to our understanding of the universe? And what if it is w… read more
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"When it comes to revolutionizing science, what matters is quality of thought, not quantity of true believers."-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
"Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong."-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
"On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge."-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
"It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the generation above them had been slaughtered in World War…"-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
17. 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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18. 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
19. 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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20. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
By: Manjit Kumar
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many … read more
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21. 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
