I am preparing a ceremony this week for a man who was passionate about science, about knowledge and about education; his mind was ceaselessly engaged in the wonders of the universe. In preparing the words for the ceremony, I came across this lovely quote from Bill Bryson, taken from "A short history of nearly everything". Bill Bryson wrote:
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you
were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would
produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all
of which had once been you.
