![]() It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. He explains that he wrote this book because he wanted to see if it was. ![]() ill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. Bill Bryson also wonders why so many science books are written in a dull, technical way. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller- but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. ![]()
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