• The best books on The Emergence of Understanding - Sacred Texts of the World by Ninian Smart and Richard Hecht (editors)
  • The best books on The Emergence of Understanding - A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  • The best books on The Emergence of Understanding - A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime by J. A. Wheeler
  • The best books on The Emergence of Understanding - The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins
  • The best books on The Emergence of Understanding - The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The best books on The Emergence of Understanding, recommended by Peter Atkins

Science is the only way to make sense of the world around us and the scientific method the only way to establish truth, says Peter Atkins, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Author of several chemistry textbooks as well as many popular science books, he recommends books that track the evolution of our understanding about the world around us, starting with an anthology of sacred texts and ending with Shakespeare.