A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman by Richard Stallman
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. -- Albert Einstein
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. -- Albert Einstein
Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice. -- Richard Stallman
Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed. -- Grigori Perelman
Intuition and Logic in Mathematics by Henri Poincaré
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences by Eugene Wigner
How Hilbert has found the Einstein Equations before Einstein and forgeries of Hilbert’s page proofs by Dieter W. Ebner