QCQ Bryson Chapter 5:

Quote: 
"At least today we can bring some sophisticated dating techniques to the table. For most of
the nineteenth century geologists could draw on nothing more than the most hopeful
guesswork."

Comment: 
The reason I picked this quote is because I feel like it has a point. Although there were many other quotes from this chapter that I enjoyed I think this one was one that was easily worded and had meaning. I think it has a point because now we have so much to look back on and a lot of what we know today is because of people before us who have pretty much done all the hard work and put things to the test and used their knowledge to figure things out, at least the structure of things and people since then have further developed. The resources people had in the nineteenth century were limited compared to the amount that we have today.

Question:
Where did people get their knowledge from before? Now we have the internet and an endless amount of books available to us and i am curious to know where people got their information from before.

Bryson Chapter 4: QCCQ

Quote:
 "Newton was a decidedly odd  figure—brilliant beyond measure, but solitary, joyless, prickly
to the point of paranoia, famously distracted,and capable of the most riveting strangeness."

Comment:
 I chose this quote because I really enjoyed the word choice that was chosen to describe Newton. I though it was powerful and attention grabbing and the author did a good job of kind of painting a picture of what he was like. The reason why I liked it was because I had never heard an interpretation of Newton such as this one nor a description of him as on point and interesting.  I like how it says " he was prickly to the pint of paranoia" it makes the reader think what exactly is meant by that, as well at the other descriptions used.

Connection:
I connected to this quote because for the math in two minutes project my partner and I worked on what the definition of gravity was and we covered Sir Isaac Newton quite a bit. I enjoyed it because it made me think back on what i recently learned about him.

Question:
I would like to know what each description means and why those words specifically were chosen.