11th July, 2017 // 7:03 a.m. // Kaushambi
"Atoms are fickle and their time of devotion is fleeting - fleeting indeed. Even a long human life adds up to only 650,000 hours. And when that modest milestone flashes into view, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown, your atoms will close you down, then silently dissemble and go off to be other things."
-A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
"Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favoured evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely - make that miraculously - fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, everyone of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life's quest to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result - eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly - in you."
-A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
"Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about one percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by the ancient remnants of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember you can always watch the birth of the universe.
- A Short History of Nearly Everything , Bill Bryson
"Atoms are fickle and their time of devotion is fleeting - fleeting indeed. Even a long human life adds up to only 650,000 hours. And when that modest milestone flashes into view, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown, your atoms will close you down, then silently dissemble and go off to be other things."
-A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
"Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favoured evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely - make that miraculously - fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, everyone of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life's quest to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result - eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly - in you."
-A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
"Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about one percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by the ancient remnants of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember you can always watch the birth of the universe.
- A Short History of Nearly Everything , Bill Bryson
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