Today's Quote
From an interview in New Scientist:
Interviewer: Did you find scientific language difficult to penetrate?
Bill Bryson (author of A Short History of Nearly Everything): I rather expected it to be worse than I found it. I was quite delighted with how accessible most of the writing in Nature is. The part that I sometimes found hard was sitting with a scientist as they explained their work to me. I had one scientist who was extremely patient at explaining particle physics to me, and I simply couldn't grasp it at all. It seemed like the sort of thing that someone on LSD would be telling you. It is such a completely different world from the one I know.
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I had one scientist who was extremely patient at explaining particle physics to me, and I simply couldn't grasp it at all. It seemed like the sort of thing that someone on LSD would be telling you.
We've got to pass that along to Graham. He'd get a kick out of it, I think.
Posted by: TM(tm) | June 18, 2003 12:48 PM
Heh! :-)
My relationship to physics is such that I have half a shelf of physics books of the popular kind, and I read them (and enjoy reading them) and totally understand them while I'm reading them. But none of it actually sticks to my brain cells for more than an hour and a half.
On the plus side, it's, like, new every single time.
Posted by: debco | June 22, 2003 06:59 PM