A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
BILL BRYSONI mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.
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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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Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
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Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.
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I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.
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Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
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Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.
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I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
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Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact.
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There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.
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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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Because time moves more slowly in Kid World … it goes on for decades … It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
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In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications.
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We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.
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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
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