So, I went shopping today...did what I had to do, then went into Waterstone's to have a shufti at some books, and found a book that made me laugh out loud in the middle of the shop after reading the first paragraph...so, naturally, I bought it ^^ here's the first paragraph, just 'cos I feel like telling you:
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down!' "- Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Can you see why i bought it? I love how he can make such an intelectually charged book so funny ^^ he did it with The Universe in a Nutshell too ^^
 Rebbyy · Sat Sep 02, 2006 @ 05:43pm · 4 Comments |
