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Don’t you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

Bill Bryson

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
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Kind Physics Simplicity
Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment.
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Firsts Perfect Together
At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States – alcohol production – and just handed it to criminals – a pretty remarkable thing to do.
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Alcohol Industry Largest Production Remarkable Things
Traveling is more fun – hell, life is more fun – if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
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Fun Hell Life
We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare.
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Number Probably Significance Suggest
There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.
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Odd Scientist Very Good
Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.
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Earth Left Behind Records
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
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Judging Skins Travel
I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
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Des Moines Someone
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions.
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Distribution Out Royal Science Work
So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right.
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Beer Eight Powerful
Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.
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Country Murder Possibility
People don’t talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain.
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Issues Rain Running
The one upstairs room in which the Duke had resided was packed to the ceiling with hundreds of green boxes, each of which contained a single dark brown wig. This was, in short, a man worth getting to know.
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Boxes Getting Hundred Mna Upstair Worth
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Ass Bad Badass Civilization
If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn’t choose human beings for the job.
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Fate Jobs Lonely

Don’t you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

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Don’t you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

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