Scientific books

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From groundbreaking metaphysics to the neurological impact of psychedelic drugs to existence of aliens, this list has plenty to teach.

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A list of scientific books to read

Books dealing with science as with history, say, should be of a literary character, and we should probably be more scientific as a people if we scrapped all the text-books which swell publishers’ lists and nearly all the chalk expended so freely on our blackboards. Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Eduction (Vol. 6) p. […]

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'A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing, read this' Professor Andrew Briggs, University of Oxford When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. And…