“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
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
I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part… — 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
“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
“Fears have been raised that in their enthusiasm scientists might inadvertently create a black hole or even something called “strange quarks,” which… — 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
“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
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of… — 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
“The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.” — 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
“We have been gulled by the ease of air travel and other forms of communication into thinking that the world is not… — 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
[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
“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
“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
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 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
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