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Do you know A Brief History of Time from A Short History of Nearly Everything?

Do you know A Brief History of Time from A Short History of Nearly Everything?

Can You Guess The Classic Science Book From Just One Line?

"The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people."

"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"

"If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it."

"No matter how hard you try you will never be able to grasp how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton."

"There’s a photo on my wall of a woman I’ve never met, its left corner torn and patched together with tape."

"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."

"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult – at least I have found it so – than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind."

"He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch"

"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."

You got fewer than half right. Time to add some of these books to your reading list!

Oh dear!

You did pretty well but there's still some room for improvement. Add a few of these books to your reading list and you'll be getting top marks in no time.

Not bad!

You got top marks and clearly know your stuff. Then again, it never hurts to add a few more books to your collection, so why not add a few that you've not read to your Christmas list. Happy reading!

Well done!

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Can You Guess The Classic Science Book From Just One Line?

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