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Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly
As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?' It is rather as if all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and baked themselves into a cake - but a cake that could moreover divide when necessary to produce more cakes. It is little wonder that we call it the miracle of life. It is also little wonder that we have barely begun to understand it.
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Bill Bryson _ The Road to Little Dribbling:
Britain has 450,000 listed buildings, 20,000 scheduled ancient monuments, twenty-six World Heritage Sites, 1,624 registered parks and gardens {that is, gardens and parks of historic significance}, 600,000 known archaeological sites {and more being found every day; more being lost, too}, 3,500 historic cemeteries, 70,000 war memorials, 4,000 sites of special scientific interest, 18,500 medieval churches, and 2,500 museums containing 170 million objects.
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Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age {just two months older than Shakespeare}, had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.
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Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly
In Australia and the Americas," says Tim Flannery, "the animals probably didn't know enough to run away.
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Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly
I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose-Timothy Ferris, Richard Fortey and Tim Flannery are three that jump out from a single station of the alphabet {and that's not even to mention the late but godlike Richard Feynman}-but,
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Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly
I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose-Timothy Ferris, Richard Fortey and Tim Flannery are three that jump out from a single station of the alphabet {and that's not even to mention the late but godlike Richard Feynman}-but, sadly, none of them wrote any textbook I ever used.
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Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly
It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it. The
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Bill Bryson _ The Mother Tongue: English and
Sometimes these differences in meaning take on a kind of bewildering circularity. A tramp in Britain is a bum in America, while a bum in Britain is a fanny in America, while a fanny in Britain is-well, we've covered that. To a foreigner it must seem sometimes as if we are being intentionally contrary.
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Bill Bryson _ Troublesome Words
needless to say is a harmless enough expression, but it often draws attention to the fact that you really didn't need to say it.
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Bill Bryson _ Troublesome Words
blueprint as a metaphor for a design or plan is much overworked. If the temptation to use it is irresistible, at least remember that a blueprint is a completed plan, not a preliminary one.
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Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of
Charles Darwin, driven to desperation by a mysterious lifelong malady that left him chronically lethargic, routinely draped himself with electrified zinc chains, doused his body with vinegar, and glumly underwent hours of pointless tingling in the hope that it would effect some improvement. It never did. The
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Bill Bryson _ A Short History of Nearly
We live in a world that doesn't altogether seem to want us here.
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