<b>The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles</b>&nbsp;is a book written by the&nbsp;New Thought Movement&nbsp;writer&nbsp;Wallace D. Wattles&nbsp;and published in 1910 by the&nbsp;Elizabeth Towne&nbsp;Company. The book is still in print. According to&nbsp;<i>USA Today</i>, the text is &quot;divided into 17 short, straight-to-the-point chapters that explain how to overcome mental barriers, and how creation, rather than competition, is the hidden key to&nbsp;wealth attraction.&quot;<br /><br />This book is based on the Hindu philosophies that One is All, and that All is One (Page one of Preface).&nbsp;<br /><br /><b><i>The Science of Getting Rich</i></b>&nbsp;is based upon what Wattles called &quot;the Certain Way of Thinking.&quot; According to&nbsp;Mitch Horowitz, the editor-in-chief of the Jeremy Tarcher imprint of&nbsp;Penguin Books, which reprinted&nbsp;<i>The Science of Getting Rich</i>&nbsp;in 2007, Wattles&#39; &quot;Certain Way&quot; descended from the &quot;mental healing movement&quot; that had started earlier with&nbsp;Phineas P. Quimby&nbsp;in the mid-19th century.<br /><br />As Horowitz explained to a reporter from the&nbsp;<i>Washington Post</i>, after experiencing relief from physical symptoms of discomfort or illness through Quimby&#39;s mental strategies, people began to wonder, &quot;If my state of mind seems to have a positive influence over how I feel physically, what other things can it do? Can it lead to prosperity? Can it lead to happiness in my home? Can it lead to finding love and romance?&quot; One result of such questioning was Wattles&#39;s application of Quimbian &quot;mental healing&quot; strategies to financial as well as physiological situations.