It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. — 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
Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“But compared with much of the rest of the world, Europe is a beacon of enlightenment. Among the many amazing and depressing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“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
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Bobcats—admittedly much smaller creatures than mountain lions—are known to exist in considerable numbers and yet are so shy and furtive that you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living?… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I mention all this to make the point that if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Life appears to have been pretty good for the Skara Brae residents. They had jewelry and pottery. They grew wheat and barley,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Oh, go on' you prod encouragingly. 'Well, just a small one then,' they say and dartingly take a small one, and then… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best -… — 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 Image
“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
