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  1. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    Human memories are short and inaccurate.
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  2. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    We are not only what we do, we are also what we imagine.
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  3. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    The price paid was £700 – which historians are always obliged to qualify with the phrase 'a considerable amount of money in those days'. However, no price is relevant when the prize is priceless.
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  4. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    To call human beings 'stewards' of this planet is like accepting that Jack the Ripper is the right man to start a Home for the Care and Protection of Fallen Women.
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  5. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    Instead, we look for patterns in the facts, and some of these patterns we have come to call the laws of Nature, while others have achieved only the status of by-laws.
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  6. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    Despite the ambiguities I have just confessed to, most of me wants very badly not to die just yet, and I am sure the majority of writers and scientists working in this area agree.
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  7. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    Science is about making stuff, just as much as it is about understanding stuff.
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  8. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    People want everything. That's their problem.
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  9. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    We need to understand why in a society so dependent on technology, a society that benefits so richly from the results of engineering, a society that rewards engineers so well, engineering isn't perceived as a desirable profession.
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  10. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    The fact that 'pure' and 'applied' science are useful and meaningful terms seduces us sometimes into thinking that they are real, absolute and distinct categories.
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  11. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    But one must be careful when speaking of 'experimental science' before the Enlightenment, for it often meant demonstrating what one already knew to be the case – and if experiment seemed to contradict axiomatic reason, so much the worse for experiment.
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  12. Bill Bryson _ Seeing Further: The Story of

    Today's mathematics is intimately bound up with two key areas of human knowledge and activity: the natural world, and the society in which we live.
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