A review by gsroney
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
5.0
“The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don't truly understand.”
Bill Bryson is able to make concepts that truly are fascinating—the beginnings of our solar system, the atomic world, evolution, the cell—also very entertaining by weaving in funny and interesting anecdotes about the people who have made these discoveries, making a book that deals with the infinitude of the universe resonate on a deeply personal level.
Bill Bryson is able to make concepts that truly are fascinating—the beginnings of our solar system, the atomic world, evolution, the cell—also very entertaining by weaving in funny and interesting anecdotes about the people who have made these discoveries, making a book that deals with the infinitude of the universe resonate on a deeply personal level.