MaxCathedral Posted September 7, 2003 Posted September 7, 2003 What or who are you fav. Scicence books or authors. Is it Hawking or Sagan? The Origin of Species or The Big Splat by Dana McKenzie about how the Moon came into existence. List your favorite or most influential books....so the rest of us can buy them.
blike Posted September 7, 2003 Posted September 7, 2003 I enjoyed "The Elegant Universe", by Brian Greene. Hawking is ok, dawkins makes for a good biological read.
MaxCathedral Posted September 7, 2003 Author Posted September 7, 2003 I have heard of this book...often. I must go out and buy it.
fafalone Posted September 7, 2003 Posted September 7, 2003 My favorite science books are my science textbooks, since they're real science books. I find them more enjoyable to read than books aimed at the general public because they contain much more detailed information and get straight to it.
YT2095 Posted September 7, 2003 Posted September 7, 2003 ditto, my text books and Data books. after that it would be the internet.
Dave Posted September 7, 2003 Posted September 7, 2003 A quite enjoyable book I read recently was 'The Book of Nothing' by John Barrow. It's quite interesting.
JaKiri Posted September 7, 2003 Posted September 7, 2003 MUST KILL HAWKING MUST KILL HAWKING MUST KILL HAWKING MUST KILL HAWKING ps. The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
blike Posted September 8, 2003 Posted September 8, 2003 lol, its becoming quite obvious Hawking and MrL do not get along
MaxCathedral Posted September 11, 2003 Author Posted September 11, 2003 MrL_JaKiri said in post #7 :MUST KILL HAWKING MUST KILL HAWKING MUST KILL HAWKING MUST KILL HAWKING ps. The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Max: I just picked up Six Easy Pieces....and read half the first chapter standing up at Barnes. Thank you. Feynman is the man. So lets see, that leavs Sagan for Astronomy, Feynman for physics, Dawkins for Biology....but who shall speak for Genetics.
atinymonkey Posted September 11, 2003 Posted September 11, 2003 Me! No, wait, Darwin. No, no, Dawkins. No actually, James Watson's double helix thingy book, he and Crick discovered the double helix don't cha' know
NSX Posted September 12, 2003 Posted September 12, 2003 Anyone ever read THe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe? I saw a guy reading it on the train once, and thought it may be another laymans Universe book. Have yet to check it out though;
daisy Posted September 12, 2003 Posted September 12, 2003 S'cuse me Atinymonkey but you do know that ol' Watson and Crick could never (and I mean NEVER) have worked out the double helix if it wasn't for the sterling work (in X-Ray crystallography) carried out by Rosalind Franklin...whose results were given to Watson and Crick by Maurice Wilkins?
daisy Posted September 12, 2003 Posted September 12, 2003 Sorry but I get totally pissed off when people completely ignore Rosalind Franklin's input...it was her data that gave Watson and Crick the clue to the puzzle and because she tragically died (of cancer) before the award of the Nobel prize she was not included. Ironically, it was possibly her exposure to radioisotopes during her studies that caused her cancer. Apparently she was a meticulous scientist (cut short in her prime) who would probably have gone on to make major contributions to the scientific world.
Dudde Posted September 13, 2003 Posted September 13, 2003 mm...hitchhiker's guide to the universe and hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, actually in the reverse order but I'm not about to retype that, was purely a humor book;) and humorous it was I'm sure I was talking with someone else about it somewhere around here sometime ago..
NSX Posted September 13, 2003 Posted September 13, 2003 Dudde said in post #15 :mm...hitchhiker's guide to the universe and hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, actually in the reverse order but I'm not about to retype that, was purely a humor book;) and humorous it was I'm sure I was talking with someone else about it somewhere around here sometime ago.. heh, must've been written by hawking eh MrL?
rebeldog Posted September 13, 2003 Posted September 13, 2003 'In search of Schrodingers Cat' by John Gribbin. A must read.
atinymonkey Posted September 13, 2003 Posted September 13, 2003 daisy said in post #13 :S'cuse me Atinymonkey but you do know that ol' Watson and Crick could never (and I mean NEVER) have worked out the double helix if it wasn't for the sterling work (in X-Ray crystallography) carried out by Rosalind Franklin...whose results were given to Watson and Crick by Maurice Wilkins? Yup, and no one would remember Watson and Crick if Watson had not been a shameless self publicist. They just put odd bits of research together in a neat readable package. To get right down to it, few famous scientists were much more than well educated self publicists. Faraday is my favourite example. Doesn't really detract from the man though, or the message.
deamonstar Posted September 14, 2003 Posted September 14, 2003 I liked "Black Holes and Time Warps" by Kip Thorne. also, as an amature astronomer, I liked "Seeing in the Dark" by Timothy Ferris. as far as periodicals go... I have a subscription to "Astronomy" magazine and "Popular Science".
YT2095 Posted September 14, 2003 Posted September 14, 2003 Well dispite my penchant for MAD magazine, here`s a book and an Author I find truly inspirational!, the religious fanatic on here wouldn`t like it (or at least not admit it) "Man the Machine" by, Frank George, ISBN: 0 586 08281 6. Paladin original Granda publishing Ltd. 1979. This book is a REAL thought provoker! A.I is not as impossible as some may think! My all time favorite Author has to be Rudy Rucker (he`s also a lecturer) his fictional works are so awesome it beggers belief! he`s a mathematician(sp?) also, and has writen many non-fiction books also, together with s/ware (mostly fractal based at last contact).
aman Posted September 15, 2003 Posted September 15, 2003 For anybody who enjoys Sci-Fi movies and having some basics presented but approaching the edge of theoretical science, this book is great. Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward Neutron Star physics, gravity, time. I think imagination drags us into scientific fact. The idea comes and the answer after and this book plants a lot of idea seeds. Just aman
neurogenesis Posted September 22, 2003 Posted September 22, 2003 drugs society and human behavior, E=mc2 a multibiography of all of sciences greatest people in cluding mathematicians and greek philosophers. preety phat
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