List 5 Essential Science Books On Your Shelf

[Seneca]

1. The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan

2. Ever Since Darwin - Stephen Jay Gould

3. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

4. The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins

5. The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene

[RPM]

1. 1-5. the Bible

Science is just a theory - the bible gives me real facts :eyes:

[mondo joe]

2. Everything by Matt Ridley, Jared Diamond & Richard Dawkins

[The Traveler]

3. Oh, boy

1. The Feynman Lecture Series on Physics
2. Mathematical Methods of Physics (Arfken)
3. Gravitation (Wheeler, Misner, Thorne)
4. Classical Mechanics (Goldstein)
5. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn)

[WindRavenX]

4. mine:

1. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Rare in the Universe
2. Contact
3. The Elegant Universe
4. The Future of Life
5. The Demon-Haunted World

[SnohoDem]

5. Very close to yours

Replace "Ever Since Darwin" with "Gedanken Physics" or Smoot's book on cosmology, "Wrinkles in Time", I think. Maybe even Gleik's "Chaos".

I loved S. J. Gould, but had to replace somebody...