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Garrard in his book, The Worst Journey in the World, about Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition.
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“Nature permits us to calculate only probabilities. Yet science has not collapsed.”
― QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
― QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“If I fire a bullet from a gun, level to the ground, and drop a penny from the same height as the barrel of the gun and at the exact moment the bullet leaves the end of the barrel, they will hit the ground simultaneously as well.”
― Einstein's Beetle: Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravity, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity An Explanation for Peasants by a Peasant who Understands
― Einstein's Beetle: Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravity, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity An Explanation for Peasants by a Peasant who Understands
“The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years,”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“I suggest that the true Darwinian spirit might salvage our depleted world by denying a favorite theme of Western arrogance—that we are meant to have control and dominion over the earth and its life because we are the loftiest product of a preordained process.”
― Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
― Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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