杏吧原创

1. Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox, HarperCollins

2. The Hidden Connections by Fritjof Capra, HarperCollins

3. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, Bantam

4. Annie鈥檚 Box by Randal Keynes, Fourth Estate

5. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Media

6. I Wish I鈥檇 Made You Angry Earlier by Max Perutz, Oxford University Press

7. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard

8. Our Cosmic Habitat by Martin Rees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

9. Newton by Patricia Fara, Macmillan

10. What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Ernst Mayr led ornithological expeditions to New Guinea in 1928. An eclipse was due, so he tried to boost his standing with the local people using a trick from Mark Twain鈥檚 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur鈥檚 Court. Mayr said that the Moon was about to totally darken. The elderly chief said: 鈥淒on鈥檛 worry, my son, it will soon get light again.鈥� (Robert Young, Harvard Library).