Biology Book Report Project
1. INTRODUTION- “Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny change of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result- eventually astoundingly, and all too briefly- in you.
2. CHAPTER 1, HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE- “Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.”
3. CHAPTER 2, WELCOME TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM- “Now the first thing you are likely to realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful. Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles, but all the visible stuff in it- the Sun, the planets and their moons, the billion or so tumbling rocks of the asteroid belt, comets and other miscellaneous drifting detritus- fills less than a trillionth of the available space.”
4. CHAPTER 3, THE REVERAND EVAN'S UNIVERSE- “Looking into the past is, of course, the easy part. Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it- not the stars as they are now but as they were when they're light left them. For all we know, the North Star, our faithful companion, might actually have burned out last January or in 1854 or at any time since the early fourteenth century and news of it just hasn't reached us yet.”
5. CHAPTER 4, THE MEASURE OF THINGS- “Today, scientists have at their disposal machines so precise that they can detect the weight of a single bacterium and so sensitive that readings can be disturbed by someone yawning seventy-five feet away, but they have not significantly improved on Cavendish's measurements of 1797.”
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2. CHAPTER 1, HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE- “Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.”
3. CHAPTER 2, WELCOME TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM- “Now the first thing you are likely to realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful. Our solar system may be the liveliest thing for trillions of miles, but all the visible stuff in it- the Sun, the planets and their moons, the billion or so tumbling rocks of the asteroid belt, comets and other miscellaneous drifting detritus- fills less than a trillionth of the available space.”
4. CHAPTER 3, THE REVERAND EVAN'S UNIVERSE- “Looking into the past is, of course, the easy part. Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it- not the stars as they are now but as they were when they're light left them. For all we know, the North Star, our faithful companion, might actually have burned out last January or in 1854 or at any time since the early fourteenth century and news of it just hasn't reached us yet.”
5. CHAPTER 4, THE MEASURE OF THINGS- “Today, scientists have at their disposal machines so precise that they can detect the weight of a single bacterium and so sensitive that readings can be disturbed by someone yawning seventy-five feet away, but they have not significantly improved on Cavendish's measurements of 1797.”
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