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zeynel1 · 2009-08-28 · Original thread
+Newton's Principia as a masterpiece of marketing and for creating the modern scholasticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophiæ_Naturalis_Principia...

+Descartes' Geometry where he declares that you can choose any line as a unit to measure other lines (your knowledge depends on what you already know, your unit) (p.1) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26400/26400-pdf.pdf

+Galileo's Dialogues for the realization that real understanding of nature does not come from academic gibberish and research is actually fun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_Chi...

+Dana Densmore's Newton book to understand Principia http://www.greenlion.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.100.exe/principi.h...

+Slow burn by Stu Mittleman to understand how human body deals with fat and sugar http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Burn-Faster-Exercising-Slower/dp/...

+The Answer John Assaraf about habits http://www.amazon.com/Answer-Business-Achieve-Financial-Extr...

+Paul Graham's essays on education and dropping out of school for early startup http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html

+Ernst Mach's History of mechanics for its incredible lucidity and classic simplicity http://books.google.com/books?id=8bI3-JSarecC&dq=ernst+m...

+Euclid for its complete lack of physics in it and its beautiful diagrams http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html +Aristotle for appreciation of curiosity http://books.google.com/books?id=WWyF4vS8P7UC&pg=PA154&#...

+Bertrand Russel for his humor http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell and for his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Really beautiful book so simple and fun to read... http://books.google.com/books?id=9GK_Fhz5RDUC&dq=introdu...

+Tolstoy's Confessions http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tolstoy/confession... For his intellectual quest going in circles

I believe that if you continue long enough in your quest, your research and understandings will describe such a circle. That's not a bad thing, I guess.

How does the world work? The world works the way you look at it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210104 We see what we believe.

Ooops, I think I am steering away from your question. But I learned something about how the world works from each one of these books.

I totally appreciate your approach to the question from a wholistic view (including the social and human elements) by disregarding academic boundaries.

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