Which Science Book Changed Your Life And Why?

The cosmos is a pretty cool place – which book opened your eyes to it?

Sometimes a book changes everything – how you understand the world, or what you want to do with your life. Science books can be particularly powerful.

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What other books can tell you where you came from, or how the universe works – and provide actual empirical evidence to back up their case?

Which science book touched – or changed – your life? Maybe it was Richard Dawkins on evolution, or Michio Kaku on physics, or Dava Sobel on the solar system.

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Or something more human, like Guy Deutscher on language, or Rebecca Skloot's wonderful The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

And how did it change things? Did it inspire you to follow a career in science? Did it simply make you see the world differently?

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