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“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“(Although scientists were in an internationally co-operative mood, nations weren’t.)” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“For scientific convenience, the atmosphere is divided into four unequal layers: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and ionosphere (now often called the thermosphere).” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Looking for a supernova, therefore, was a little like standing on the observation platform of the Empire State Building with a telescope… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In essence what relativity says is that space and time are not absolute but relative both to the observer and the thing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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“As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Bipedalism is a demanding and risky strategy. It means refashioning the pelvis into a full load-bearing instrument. To preserve the required strength,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“An expedition was organized at once, but despite the most scrupulous searching no one could find the Cape Arid colony. Subsequent searches… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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“Because they are so long-lived, atoms really get around. Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Cavendish is a book in himself. Born into a life of sumptuous privilege- his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent-… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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“For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share
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“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
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… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share
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