Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical. Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind. Even in the time of Newton and Galileo, men knew
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“Maybe it’s seventy years in the future and you found this book in a stack of junk being used to block the entrance of an abandoned Starbucks that is now a feeding station for the alien militia.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“It doesn’t prove anything very much except that the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.”
― Mort
― Mort
“It’s hard to imagine an American sports team named the Diarrheas (“Gimme a ‘D’ …”).”
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“a rather jolly little pony, quite possibly wearing a straw hat with holes cut out for its ears.”
― Mort
― Mort
“But you reassure yourself that at least here they are safe from baleen whales and oil slicks and cocktail sauce.”
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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