“I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose—Timothy Ferris, Richard… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“And as you are about to see, it not only produces the best science, but also some of the very best science… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).” — 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
“As a known entity, DNA has been around longer than you might think. It was discovered as far back as 1869 by… — 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
“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
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
You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand. — 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
“This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly… — 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
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
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“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
“Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Physicists are notoriously scornful of scientists from other fields. When the great Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s wife left him for a chemist,… — 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
“(Although scientists were in an internationally co-operative mood, nations weren’t.)” — 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
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
Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground. — 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
“One of the things that I wanted to find out when I started working on the book—that's always fascinated me—I have great… — 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
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
