![]() ![]() Ultimately, Bryson wants the reader to understand that life is a rare, precious, and precarious thing that is worthy of awe, profound respect, and care. Bryson also aims to demonstrate how scientific progress is hindered by prejudices like patriarchal values and religious biases. ![]() His aim is to show that scientific discovery is in its very early stages (despite how often scientists declare otherwise), as well as to show that clear, accessible expression and classification are essential to the scientific endeavor. To make this story more engaging for laypeople, Bryson invokes frequent humorous biographical anecdotes about the scientists he addresses, and he avoids technical jargon, favoring visual metaphors instead. ![]() In the book, Bryson explores scientific discovery in a range of scientific areas, but especially in physics, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology, astronomy, oceanography, and paleontology. The result is the narrative he tells in A Short History of Everything. To remedy this, he starts learning about the history of scientific discovery because he’s curious about how scientists come to know what they know. Bryson feels that he knows very little about science, primarily because he found science textbooks so dull and technical as a child. Shakespeare Show full title Written by Bill Bryson Narrated by Bill Bryson 3 / 5 ( 1,333 ratings ) About this audiobook William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. Bryson is the author and sole narrator of the story. ![]()
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