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William „Bill“ McGuire Bryson, OBE, ist ein US-amerikanischer Journalist und Schriftsteller. Berühmt wurde er vor allem durch seine ebenso informativen wie humorvollen Reiseberichte aus Europa, den Vereinigten Staaten und Australien. Bryson war von 2005 bis Ende 2011 Kanzler der renommierten britischen University of Durham, die ihm die Ehrendoktorwürde verlieh. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Dezember 1951  •  Andere Namen بیل بروسون
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„Menschen spalteten das Atom und erfanden Fernsehen, Nylon und löslichen Kaffee, bevor sie das Alter ihres eigenen Planeten herausgefunden hatten.“

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„Wenn wir ein Lebewesen damit beauftragen wollten, sich in der Einsamkeit des Kosmos um Lebendiges zu kümmern, zu überwachen, was daraus wird und wohin es geht, sollte man für diese Aufgabe keine Menschen auswählen.“

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„Aus unserer Sicht ist besonders bemerkenswert, wie sich für uns alles zum Guten gewendet hat. Hätte das Universum bei seiner Entstehung nur ein kleines bisschen anders ausgesehen - wäre die Schwerkraft geringfügig stärker oder schwächer gewesen oder wäre die Ausdehnung nur ein wenig schneller oder langsamer vonstatten gegangen -, dann hätte es wahrscheinlich nie stabile Elemente gegeben, die dich und mich und die Erde, auf der wir stehen, hätten bilden können. Bei einer geringfügig stärkeren Gravitation wäre wahrscheinlich das ganze Universum wie ein schlecht aufgestelltes Zelt in sich zusammengebrochen, und ohne genau die richtigen Werte hätte es weder die richtigen Dimensionen und Bestandteile noch die richtige Dichte gehabt.“

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„Was das Leben sonst auch sein mag, auf der Ebene der Chemie ist es erstaunlich profan: Kohlenstoff, Wasserstoff, Sauerstoff und Stickstoff, ein wenig Calcium, ein Schuss Schwefel, eine kleine Prise von ein paar anderen ganz gewöhnlichen Elementen - nichts, was man nicht in jeder normalen Apotheke finden würde -, das ist alles, was man braucht. Das einzig Besondere an den Atomen, die Sie bilden, besteht darin, dass sie Sie bilden. Und das ist natürlich das Wunder des Lebens.“

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„Das Fazit aus alledem lautet: Wir leben in einem Universum, dessen Alter wir nicht berechnen können, umgeben von Sternen, deren Entfernung wir nicht kennen, zwischen Materie, die wir nicht identifizieren können, und alles funktioniert nach physikalischen Gesetzen, deren Eigenschaften wir eigentlich nicht verstehen.“

Bill Bryson buch Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem

A Short History of Nearly Everything

„Bradford hat die Rolle seines Lebens darin gefunden, jeden anderen Ort auf diesem Planeten im Vergleich besser abschneiden zu lassen, und es spielt sie sehr gut.“

Bill Bryson buch Notes from a Small Island

Notes from a Small Island

„Kriegsgefangenenentschädigungsgesetz (a law pertaining to war reparations)“

Bill Bryson buch The Mother Tongue

The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

„Wirtschaftstreuhandgesellschaft (business trust company)“

Bill Bryson buch The Mother Tongue

The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

„Die Menschen in der Urzeit haben oft Dinge getan, die nicht einfach nur überraschend, sondern geradezu unfasslich sind.“

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“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”

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Bill Bryson buch Eine kurze Geschichte von fast allem

Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.”

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Quelle: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”

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Quelle: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise.”

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Quelle: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)

“It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”

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Quelle: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

“We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.”

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Bill Bryson buch Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe (1991)

“Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”

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“When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied. "It's so seldom I have one.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.”

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Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Quelle: A Walk in the Woods

“To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.”

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“I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.”

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Quelle: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

“Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.”

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Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Quelle: A Walk in the Woods

“Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth, and Mary Ellen was proof that even in the Appalachian woods I would not be spared. It became evident from the first moment that she was a rarity.”

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Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Quelle: A Walk in the Woods (1997), Chapter 4 (p. 51)

“Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.”

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Quelle: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

“As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.”

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Quelle: In a Sunburned Country

“18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.”

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“Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?”

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Bill Bryson buch Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Quelle: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

“Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.”

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Quelle: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.”

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Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Quelle: A Walk in the Woods

“If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.”

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“The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--”

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“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”

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Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)
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