Classics for Beginners discussion

This was so fun to read Neil deGrasse Tyson's book recommendations and what you'll learn from reading them: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/...

Holy Bible to learn that it’s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

A Treatise of the System of the World by Isaac Newton, to learn that the universe is a knowable place

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, to learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, to learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos

The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, to learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world

The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, to learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself

The Art of War by Sun Tzu, to learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, to learn that people not in power will do all they can to acquire it, and people in power will do all they can to keep it

Thanks. I'll give this to my son. He is a total Neil deGrasse Tyson fan.

Who isn't? Oh, yeah! Dumb people!