Bill Bryson, A Short History Of Nearly Everything

Quotes

• “In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing acros...”
• “It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would p...”
• “When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him w...”
• “There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important;...”
• “Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.”
• “Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.”