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    Bill Bryson

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    Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground. ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #taxonomy #art

    Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen. ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #einstein #energy #matter #physics #science

    Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #science

    Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead. ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #humor #old-people #humor

    ...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #life #ordinary #life

    Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener. ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #humor #humor

    In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #science #science

    For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #humour #physics #science #space #science

    The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to realize just how big that planet was. ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #globe #history #magellan #home

    [Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use. ↗


    — Bill Bryson

    #invention #progress #home






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    Eventually living in North Yorkshire and mainly working as a journalist Bryson became chief copy editor of the business section of The Times and then deputy national news editor of the business section of The Independent. ) (1999)
    Down Under (UK) / In a Sunburned Country (U. "
    In November 2006 Bryson interviewed the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the state of science and education.

    He received widespread recognition again with the publication of A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) which popularised scientific questions for a general audience. Bryson shot to prominence in the United Kingdom with the publication of Notes From A Small Island (1995) an exploration of Britain for which he made an accompanying television series. Born an American he was a resident of Britain for most of his adult life before returning to the US in 1995.

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