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"It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you."

— Bill Bryson

It Is A Slightly Arresting Notion That If You Were To Pick Yourself Apart With T

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

— Bill Bryson
From A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything, Chapter 26

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
— Bill Bryson
from A Short History of Nearly Everything
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
— Bill Bryson
from A Short History of Nearly Everything
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