Recommended Books

Dlaczego statystyki kłamią
by Darrell Huff, Irving Geis
"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
— https://tim.blog/2019/10/03/neil-degrasse-tyson/

Wielki Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I can’t do that. I’m sorry. I’ll never be a novelist." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
— https://tim.blog/2019/10/03/neil-degrasse-tyson/

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith, George J. Stigler
"To learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
— https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c38vowu/

The Holy Bible: King James Version
by Anonymous
"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
— https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c38vowu/

Książę
by Niccolò Machiavelli, Benjamin Martinez, Denis Daly
"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
— https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c38vowu/

O powstawaniu gatunków drogą doboru naturalnego
by Charles Darwin
"To learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
— https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c38vowu/

Pułapki myślenia. O myśleniu szybkim i wolnym
by Daniel Kahneman
Essential for understanding how we think and make decisions.

Sztuka wojny
by Sun Tzu
"To learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
— https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c38vowu/

Podróże Guliwera
by Jonathan Swift
"To learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
— https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c38vowu/

Ptolemy's Almagest
by Owen Gingerich, Ptolemy, Hypatia, Theon of Alexandria
"The crowning achievement of a geocentric universe. Of course, the whole concept was wrong, but it was interestingly wrong." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
— https://tim.blog/2019/10/03/neil-degrasse-tyson/

Principia: Vol. II: The System of the World
by Isaac Newton
"To learn that the universe is a knowable place." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
— https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c38vowu/

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
by Steven Novella
"If this book does not become required reading for us all, we may well see modern civilization unravel before our eyes." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
— https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538760525

The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine
"To learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
— https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c38vowu/