His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization.
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