Books Recommended by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff
Source: "A cute little tiny book that tells you all the things who people who want to fool you into thinking something that’s true, that’s not, and how they manipulate statistics in order to accomplish this." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
2 recommendersThe Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Source: "To learn that people not in power will do all they can to acquire it, and people in power will do all they can to keep it." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
Steven Novella
Source: "If this book does not become required reading for us all, we may well see modern civilization unravel before our eyes." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
2 recommendersThe Almagest
Introduction to the Mathematics of the Heavens
Claudius Ptolemy
Source: "The crowning achievement of a geocentric universe. Of course, the whole concept was wrong, but it was interestingly wrong." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
1 recommenderThe Principia
The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Isaac Newton
Source: "The man was connected to the universe in ways that I've never seen another human being connect." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
3 recommendersHoly Bible
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Source: "To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age Of Reason
Thomas Paine
Source: "To learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
2 recommendersThe Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Source: "To learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Source: "To learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Art Of War
Sun Tzu
Source: "To learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source: "I can’t do that. I’m sorry. I’ll never be a novelist." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
The System of the World
Isaac Newton
Source: "To learn that the universe is a knowable place." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
1 recommenderThe Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Source: "To learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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