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You don’t need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Bill Bryson

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
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Curious Good Planets Promoting Very
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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Automobile Being Everything Human
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
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Country Feels Way
If you believe in god, it’s much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that’s so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.
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Believe Thinking Years
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame.
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Beautiful Country Light
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
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Fashion Matter Writing
I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
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Des Moines Someone
That’s 270 million people with 206 bones each – will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That’s not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found.
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Actually Bones Complete Course Each Million People
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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Doors Four Years
Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
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Dog Earth Want
That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back.
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Gone Late Mind Too
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country’s dangers are vastly overrated and that there’s nothing to worry about.
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Conversation Country Eye Insisting Uncles
Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
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Advice Good Real World
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Adaptability Term Useless
Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.
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Better Feel Leaving Mind
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.
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Anonymous Cities Feelings Travel

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