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.
( Bill Bryson )
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