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DJ Kool Herc’s intro: “That's what I hope the hip-hop generation can do, to take us all to the next level by always reminding us: It ain't about keeping it real, it's about keeping it right.”

Just finished Part II with my jaw AGAPE. This book is so damn good

A few jaw dropping lines in there. Great writing

“A student would present an idea. The idea may not have made any sense, but Robert would boomerang the idea back to the student in a more structured form.”

“Cosmologists and astrophysicists have found that our universe is expanding: galaxies are moving apart from one another as our space-time expands, much like raisins in a loaf of bread move away from one another as the bread rises.”

Chapter 2: I felt the author explained and deciphered complex concepts clearly for people who haven’t studied physics past the require credit in high school. I memorized long ago that two negatives equals a positive, but it was while reading this chapter that it finally clicked WHY that is. Great book so far.

Intro quotes:

“a tool for understanding the quirky dynamics of the quantum world: its inherent uncertainties & the idea that each outcome is actually the sum of all possible outcomes.”

“…there exists in that need for further research, that an avenue for discovery lies. It's like interdisciplinary rock hopping, from the bank of ignorance to the bank of knowledge, while the wide river of lite rushes past”

Ch. 35 quote that I LOVE

“The harder we push on the search for the origin of life, the more surprises we find. These discoveries keep me wondering: "Mother Nature, what else haven't you told me?" “

Ch. 34 excerpt:

“On Venus, it rains acid. But the acid rain never hits Venusian ground, because the heat is so intense that the raindrops evaporate before they can make it to the surface. Venus is a good approximation of hell.”

Ch. 32 excerpt:

“Our reactions to other groups are real enough, but evolutionary biology shows that those reactions have nothing to do with race, because race is not real. Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one.”

Ch. 28 funny excerpt:
“This same sort of avuncular and tauntular (my own coinage for having the characteristics of or pertaining to an aunt—i's a word strangely missing from the English language)”

Ch 28 fave quote:
“Altruism is not a moral or religious ideal, no matter what some people might tell you. It is an essential, biological part of who or what we are as a species.” …. DAMN BILL!!!