Neil deGrasse Tyson the champion of science, or as most of you probably know him, the ‘watch out we’ve got a badass over here’ meme, participated in Reddit’s Ask Me Anything series of public questions and answers. One user asked the next question: “Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet?”
Neil decided to offer 8 essentials in life and then he added: “If you read all of the above works you will glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.”
1. The Bible.
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2. The System of the World by Isaac Newton.
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3. On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin.
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4. Gulliver’s Travel by Jonathan Swift.
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5. The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.
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6. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
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7. The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
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8. The Prince by Machiavelli.
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