1) One book that changed your life?
The Demon Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark – Carl Sagan
2) One book you have read more than once?
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (4 times now?)
3) One book you would want on a desert island?
“How to Build a Solar-Powered Catamaran and GPS Device out of Coconuts, Sand, and Palm Trees” – Have to go with Jenna and Katie on this.
4) One book that made you laugh?
The God Particle by Leon Ledermen (indeed, the funniest book on physics you’ll ever read)
5) One book that made you cry?
Night by Auschwitz survivor Eliezer Wiesel
6) One book you wish had been written?
A conceptual history of classical physics, A conceptual history of Relativistic physics, A conceptual history of Quantum Mechanics
7) One book you wish had never had been written?
Plato’s Republic, aka the origins of communism and mysticism.
8) One book you are currently reading?
The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy by Peter W. Huber, Mark P. Mills
9) One book you have been meaning to read?
The Complete Works of Aristotle.
10) Your oldest books?
Good question, I would guess an old physics / engineering / mechanical or electrical book from the 20’s or 30’s
