Genre :: Science (6 books)

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  #292

  On the Origin of Species

  by Charles Darwin

  (4 Reviews)

  74 Points

  "When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past..."

  

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  #504

  Silent Spring

  by Rachel Carson

  (2 Reviews)

  24 Points

  "In a letter written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world made lifeless, and so brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had..."

  

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  #513

  A Brief History of Time

  by Stephen Hawking

  (3 Reviews)

  22 Points

  "A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy."

  

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  #545

  The Interpretation of Dreams

  by Sigmund Freud

  (3 Reviews)

  15 Points

  

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  #565

  The Periodic Table

  by Primo Levi

  (3 Reviews)

  12 Points

  "There are the so-called inert gases in the air we breathe."

  

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  #577

  The Selfish Gene

  by Richard Dawkins

  (1 Review)

  10 Points

  "Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence."

  

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