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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by mechanical_fish on Friday October 03, 2008 @12:56AM (#322438)
Five (or six) good books about five different sciences:

Materials Science: Gordon, Structures, or Why Things Don't Fall Down.

Linguistics: Pinker, The Language Instinct

Evolutionary Biology: Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker

Molecular Biology: David Clark, Molecular Biology Made Simple and Fun

Physics: the canonical answer is "Feynman". I won't argue with that. His little books (QED and The Character of Physical Law) are quite nice.

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Re:5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind by helveticaman on Friday October 03, 2008 @03:48AM (#322534)
+1 The Blind Watchmaker, although I'd argue The Selfish Gene is a better introduction to the field. The Blind Watchmaker is somewhat more focussed on argument evolution versus creationism. Still, awesome stuff.
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