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The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

Bill Bryson
Funny, Knowledge, Science
Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

Bill Bryson
Life, Science, Dust
Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

Bill Bryson
Science, Work Out, Royal

In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.

Bill Bryson
Science, Flames, Eyebrows
Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Bill Bryson
Science, Thinking, Understanding

Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree.

Bill Bryson
Cancer, Science, Thinking

It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.

Bill Bryson
Mean, Science, Skeletons

[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such as climate change, but it is not aggressively secular either, insisting on a single view of the world. In fact, there are plenty of eminent scientists - Robert Winston, for instance - who are also men of faith.

Bill Bryson
Faith, Science, Men

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