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Books recommended by scientists. 15 people, 44 books. Recommendation records: 52.

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Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point

by Huw Price · 1996

Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli recommends Price’s book for challenging familiar assumptions about the direction of time.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: Five Books

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The best books on Time

Conservative paraphrase of a direct positive reading endorsement; no verbatim quote asserted.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

Five Books · 2018-05-11 · accessed 2026-10-01

Interview · Direct reading endorsement

Direct interview fourth selection, positive account of learning from Price.

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What Is Life?

by Erwin Schrodinger · 1944

Frank Wilczek

Named by Frank Wilczek as an additional choice alongside his best popular-science books.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: IOP Publishing / Physics World

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Shelf life: Frank Wilczek

Wilczek’s own reader-facing selection, conservatively paraphrased as a documented citation.

This text documents what the source says, but it is not verified as a word-for-word quote.

IOP Publishing / Physics World · 2004-11-03 · accessed 2026-10-01

Interview · Direct reading interview

After three selections in the same best-books answer, Wilczek explicitly adds Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life?. This is not attributed from a currently-reading or never-read answer.

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I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall recommends I Capture the Castle and reports giving it to young readers.

Recommended · Wording not verified Source: The Tim Ferriss Show

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Thinking About Extra Dimensions with Physicist Lisa Randall (#115)

Own favorable gifted-book selection; authored books and host-only reading excluded. Catalog summary, no excerpt copied.

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The Tim Ferriss Show · 2015-10-24 · accessed 2026-10-01

Interview · Own reading selection

Original transcript page28: own answer identifies Dodie Smith and a favorable gifted-book selection. Original episode publication2015, not2018PDFhosting; no recording date inferred.

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View evidence on Lisa Randall’s profile