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In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

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Bill Bryson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 8
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From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
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I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
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Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough.
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Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
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There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.
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It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.
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It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.
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Croissant: However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying kwass-ohn, the sooner you can expect to be presented with one.
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Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
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Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
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Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
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I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.
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England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
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You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.
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To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
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The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
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Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.
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