Bill Bryson Quote
You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight, he would say. Isaw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of licenseplates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight?Amazing!His point, of course, was that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful.So it is possible that the events and conditions that led to the rise of life on Earth are notquite as extraordinary as we like to think. Still, they were extraordinary enough, and one thingis certain: they will have to do until we find some better.
Bill Bryson
You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight, he would say. Isaw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of licenseplates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight?Amazing!His point, of course, was that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful.So it is possible that the events and conditions that led to the rise of life on Earth are notquite as extraordinary as we like to think. Still, they were extraordinary enough, and one thingis certain: they will have to do until we find some better.