一百本值得一讀的書籍

我怕久了網頁就消失，因此把這些書單記錄下來，來日方長慢慢看。

100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science

Biography

Charles Darwin, Autobiography (1950) 

G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940) 

James Watson, The Double Helix (1968) 

Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (1979) 

Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

Field Guides

William Garnett, Aerial Photographs (1994) 

Jonathan Kingdon, East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa (1971) 

Lynn Margulis and Karlene V. Schwartz, Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth (1998, 3rd ed.) 

Ward Ritchie Press, Photo-Atlas of the United States: A Complete Photographic Atlas of the USA Using Satellite Photography (1975) 

Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to the Birds (1934) 

Allan Sandage, The Hubble Atlas of Galaxies (1961) 

John S. Shelton, Geology Illustrated (1966) 

John Steinbeck and E. F. Ricketts, Sea of Cortez (1941) 

H. Bradley, W. A. Craigie, J. A. H. Murray and C. T. Onions (eds.), 

Oxford English Dictionary (1933) 

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Hortus (1930)

[The Physical Sciences]

Explorations

Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang (1997) 

George Gamow, One, Two, Three? Infinity (1947) 

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (1988) 

Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, The Mind's I (1981) 

Kenneth Hsu and William Ryan, The Mediterranean Was a Desert (1983) 

Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers (1985) 

Primo Levi, The Periodic Table (1984) 

John McPhee, Annals of the Former World (1998) 

Carl Sagan, The Pale Blue Dot (1994) 

Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory (1992) 

Herman Weyl, Symmetry (1952)

Monographs

Paul Dirac, Quantum Mechanics (1930) 

Albert Einstein, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1902–09 (1930) 

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Fractals (1977) 

Linus Pauling, Nature of the Chemical Bond (1939) 

Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, 

Principia Mathematica (1910–13, 3 vols.) 

Cyril Smith, Search For Structure (1981) 

John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944) 

Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics (1948) 

R. B. Woodward and Roald Hoffmann, Conservation of Orbital Symmetry (1970) 

Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity (1922) 

Richard Feynman, QED (1985) 

Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming (1968)

History of Science

A. Pais, Inward Bound (1986) 

John Desmond Bernal, Science in History (1954) 

Paul de Kruif, Microbe Hunters (1926) 

Martin Gardner, In the Name of Science (reprinted as Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science) (1952) 

Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being (1936) 

Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China (1947) 

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986) 

Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard and A. R. Hall, 

A History of Technology (1954) 

Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff (1979)

Science Itself Examined

Vannevar Bush, Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) 

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) 

Peter B. Medawar, The Art of the Soluble (1967) 

Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) 

C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959) 

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1945)

[Many-Sided Life]

Explorations

William Beebe, Jungle Days (1925) 

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) 

John R. Horner and James Gorman, Digging Dinosaurs (1988) 

Francois Jacob, The Possible and the Actual (1982) 

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949) 

Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986) 

Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon's Ring (1952) 

Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity (1971) 

Richard Preston, The Hot Zone (1994) 

Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell (1974)

Monographs

Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature (1984)

Stephen S. Morse (ed.), Emerging Viruses (1993)

Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? (1944)

D'Arcy Thompson, On Growth and Form (1917)

Vladimir Vernadskii, The Biosphere (1998; French version, 1929) 

Alister Clavering Hardy, The Open Sea: Its Natural History (1956–59, 2 vols.)

Edward O. Wilson, The Insect Societies (1971)

The Evolution of Life

Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986) 

Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (1977) 

Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch (1994) 

Richard Goldschmidt, The Material Basis of Evolution (1940) 

Ronald Aylmer Fisher, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930) 

George Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought (1966) 

Howard Gruber, with Paul H. Barrett, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity (1974)

[The Nature and Rise of Our Own Species]

Explorations

Elizabeth Barber, Women's Work (1994) 

Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (1972) 

Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (1965) 

Jane Goodall, In the Shadow of Man (1988) 

R. L. Gregory, The Intelligent Eye (1970) 

Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954) 

L. S. B. Leakey, Adam's Ancestors: The Evolution of Man and His Culture (1934) 

Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct (1994) 

Denise Schmandt-Besserat, How Writing Came About (1996) 

George B. Schaller, The Mountain Gorilla: Ecology and Behavior (1963) 

Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On (1987) 

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959) 

Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, Thought and Language (1962) 

Charles Leonard Wooley, Discovering the Royal Tombs at Ur (1969)

Monographs

C. K. Brain, Hunter and Hunted (1981)

Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structure (1957)

Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1920)

Mary Leakey; Laetoli: A Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania (1987)

Richard Lee, The Kung San (1979)

Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Treasures of Prehistoric Art (1967)

Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind (1986)

Peter and Iona Oppie, Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending (1969)

Ivan P. Pavlov, Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes (1926)

Oskar Pfungst, Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten): A Contribution to Experimental Animal and Human Psychology (1911)

Novels

Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith (1925) 

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (1963) 

H. G. Wells, Tono Bungay (1908) 

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

暗殺教室178話有感

暗殺教室即將要完結篇了，在178話中有段註解還不錯～殺老師從來沒有說過：E班的制度是錯誤的，所以讓校方改變這個制度吧。這個世界上有太多不講道理，不公平的事。要是有空去贈恨或者因此而放棄的話，不如愉快地與這些毫無道理之事戰鬥吧。

為什麼突然有感呢？我蠻喜歡看傳記的，那些過去曾經活在這世界上的人，透過閱讀，他們似乎活靈活現的在眼前復活。最近看到一本法鼓文化出版的書籍-巨浪迴瀾：明清佛門人物群像及其藝文。書中的高僧們似乎就以這樣的心境，一步一步向前進，這樣講不代表他們就是順從和諧派，反而是充滿戰鬥力的一群人。以明末四高僧的紫柏真可為例來說。當時他的好朋友憨山德清(明末四高僧之一)被誣以「私創寺院」的罪名而入獄後遭流放，此外政府為了掠奪民間財富巧設各種名目，其中更以「礦稅」傷害最大。紫柏真可為了好朋友和人民到處奔走遊說，甚至頂撞朝廷。弟子勸紫柏真可離開京師避禍，他說：「吾當斷髮，已如斷頭，今更有何頭可斷！」

最終紫柏真可遭東廠、錦衣衛拷打，遍體鱗傷，幾存一息，經刑部審訊後定罪。砍頭的前一晚，紫柏真可感慨：「世法如此，久住為何？」，於是雙腳盤腿，數稱毗盧遮那佛入滅。

幾百年後看到紫柏真可云：老憨不歸，則我出世一大負。礦稅不止，則我救世一大負。傳燈未續，則我慧命一大負。依舊感覺得到他的豪氣與不忍眾生受苦受難的大悲心。我想他們應該有很深很深的人生哲學所以可以笑笑的持續戰鬥下去，直到階段性任務結束。佛教有一派被稱作大乘佛教，他們認為勇猛的人才願意來到充滿挑戰的世間，並透過各種事件一步一步慢慢找回自己本來就有的智慧，也許是這麼一種充滿活力和戰鬥力的想法，讓憨山德清說：不入大冶紅爐，誰知他是鐵漢。