Timothy Ferris

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1. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Bully for Brontosaurus, Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown

2. Timothy Ferris

   Author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, The Mind's Sky

3. Carl Sagan

   Author of Cosmos, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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4. P. C. W. Davies

   Author of The Last Three Minutes : Conjectures about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe, About Time : Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries That Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality

5. Richard Feynman

   Author of What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

6. James Gleick

   Author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, Isaac Newton

7. Brian Greene

   Author of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006
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8. Lewis Thomas

   Author of The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

9. Lee Smolin

   Author of The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, The Life of the Cosmos
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10. Michio Kaku

    Author of Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century, Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe

11. Richard Dawkins

    Author of River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003

12. Steven Weinberg

    Author of The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, Dreams of a Final Theory
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13. Daniel J. Boorstin

    Author of The Discoverers, The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

14. Stephen Hawking

    Author of The Universe in a Nutshell, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, The Nature of Space and Time

15. Richard Rhodes

    Author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

16. John D. Barrow

    Author of The Origin Of The Universe, PI in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being, The Book of Nothing : Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe

17. Dava Sobel

    Author of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, The Planets, The Best American Science Writing 2004
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18. David Quammen

    Author of Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder, The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

19. Edward O. Wilson

    Author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Naturalist, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001

20. Roger Penrose

    Author of The Emperor's New Mind, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe