Which Three Books Would You Choose?

One of the books I would choose is a chemistry dictionary. This is because of the quote by Richard Feynman,

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis that all things are made of atoms — little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

I am still thinking about the other two books to use.

O.K. Nobody else responding so far. Let's see if this gets a response.😀

One of the other two books would presumably be something about morality or possibly even religion. From the little bit I've studied about anthropology though I know that what works in my society might not necessarily function well in a different society. Morality and ethics can often be subjective so if I were to choose a book for that it would have to cover a spectrum of ideas. That would leave out texts specific to any one religion or denomination.

There would be the same problem with taking a psychology book. As far as can be determined the psychology of an average human 100,000 years ago and the psychology of the average modern person would be similar. The same may hold true for someone living 100,000 years in the future. There are different schools of thought in psychology so it would have to be a psychology book that represented them all.

A stagnated society, but not a destroyed one? The Gateless gate, Everest, Rules for Radicals.
A book each on the inner self, the putter self and enacting change. Stagnation is death.

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