![]() ![]() "I didn't know what a proton was, or a protein, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't understand how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything really," he tells us in the Introduction.īut Bryson got curious about these and many other things: "Suddenly, I had a powerful, uncharacteristic urge to know something about these matters and to understand how people figure them out."Īll of us should be lucky to be so curious. He is a professional writer, and hitherto researching his book was quite ignorant of science by his own admission. It is superbly written.Īuthor Bill Bryson is not a scientist far from it. ![]() What has propelled this popular science book to the New York Time's Best Seller List? The answer is simple. Prepared by the staff of Jupiter Scientific ![]() Book Review for A Short History of Nearly Everything ![]()
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