{"id":452,"date":"2014-04-10T22:49:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T22:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T11:32:10","slug":"a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-bill-bryson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-bill-bryson\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of Nearly Everything &#8211; Bill Bryson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite quotes from the book <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Jg9zzM\">A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/a>\u00a0by Bill Bryson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once in a great while, and few times in history, a human mind produces observation so acute and so unexpected that people can&#8217;t quite decide which is more amazing, the fact or the thinking of it.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists dealt with this paradox in the handiest possible way \u2013 they ignored it.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes world just isn&#8217;t ready for a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>The good news appears is that it takes an awful lot to extinguish species. The bad news is good news can never be counted on.<\/p>\n<p>Three stages in scientific discovery: 1: people deny that it&#8217;s true. 2: then they deny that it&#8217;s important. 3: finally they credit the wrong person.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe&#8217;s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite quotes from the book A Short History of Nearly Everything\u00a0by Bill Bryson: Once in a great while, and few times in history, a human mind produces&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}