Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the…

Quote by Bill Bryson

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Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent...

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense...

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense...

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I...

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I...

What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning...

What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning...

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like...

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like...

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going...

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going...

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children...

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children...

A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but...

A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but...

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted...

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted...

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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes...

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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per...

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,...

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,...

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Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think...

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The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what...

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I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend...

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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a...

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature...

I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he...

I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he...

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What...

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What...

That awkward moment during a test and you don't know any of the answers, so...

That awkward moment during a test and you don't know any of the answers, so...