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Book cover for Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing?
Garrard in his book, The Worst Journey in the World, about Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition.
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“The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years,”
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“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.”
Mark Southworth, 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

Richard P. Feynman
“Nature permits us to calculate only probabilities. Yet science has not collapsed.”
Richard P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Stephen Jay Gould
“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.”
Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

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