"When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one."

Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds ever and this quote just shows that know matter how smart somebody is, they are not a genius 100% of the time and still have to work like normal people. They may get extraordinary ideas and create tools, equipment and equations that will make us all want to hate the sciences forever and for always but the ideas are such a huge benefit to the world and have no detrimental properties. (apart from giving students a hard time) Albert Einstein is most recognized by E=MC^2 or his speed of light equation was one of the few beneficial ideas he had in his entire life. Furthermore, Einstein worked in a post office as his job. He worked hard like every normal person and then when he got off work he would work at his passion which was science. Einstein was no different to anybody. We have our jobs, mine is school. During the day we work and after we get to relax and enjoy whatever we want.

"In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face."

Bill Bryson is an amusing and almost juvenile in his writing style. When I read this quote I laughed so hard I almost choked. Many people in serious positions tend to never let anything amuse them and seem to disassociate themselves from everything that could give them some joy in their lives. Chemistry is a dangerous class and Pilatre de Rozier probably had a very shortened life style from his silly antics in the chemistry lab (which Ms. Shakerinia would disapprove of very much) but at least he attempted to amuse himself doing a job that most people would see as dull and uninspiring. (Not to mention dangerous) We are all to serious in general and it makes things boring. All the boring jobs could be much more desirable if people would stop being so serious all the time and crack the occasional joke without causing damage to equipment or injure people.

"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 on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe."

This quote really showes the wondrous aspects of our life that many people do not know about. As a society, we tend to complain about the meaningless aspects of our lives that one hundred years ago would not have been an issue. Today we complain about the television, the Internet and other silly things that we take for granted. We need to open our eyes as a society and realise that even the silly things that we witness almost every day, such as the dancing static on TV channel that we don't get, has a huge significant impact in our lives no matter how silly and insignificant they may seem.

"Constructing a human world", The Human Society

When Northrop Frye says "constructing a human world" I believe he meant that the life we have now, even if we don't feel as though it is, this is the life we want and need because we would not be able to survive in a peaceful world dominated by kind, loving animals. I do not believe with what he was referring to, however, due to the fact that many people are solitary by nature and do not require the human marvels we have and would love nothing more than to spend the rest of eternity living in a tranquil wilderness where one could do whatever he or she pleased. I believe that "The love of learning" speech does not have any direct correlation to Frye because in a speech directed at university graduates, when would construction of a human world occur? It is not feasible, however, Frye and McCullough where attempting to do the same thing and bring the love of literature to people that is what Frye believes and the only terrible loss from living in the animal kingdom would be the loss of the miraculous works published throughout the ages.