Science Quotes by Bill Bryson

“The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.”

— Bill Bryson

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

— Bill Bryson

“Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.”

— Bill Bryson

“(Although scientists were in an internationally co-operative mood, nations weren’t.)”

— Bill Bryson

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

— Bill Bryson

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part…

— Bill Bryson

“And as you are about to see, it not only produces the best science, but also some of the very best science…

— Bill Bryson

“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.”

— Bill Bryson

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get…

— Bill Bryson

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally…

— Bill Bryson

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you…

— Bill Bryson

“Looking for a supernova, therefore, was a little like standing on the observation platform of the Empire State Building with a telescope…

— Bill Bryson

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

“On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as…

— Bill Bryson

“For scientific convenience, the atmosphere is divided into four unequal layers: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and ionosphere (now often called the thermosphere).”

— Bill Bryson

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

“As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the…

— Bill Bryson

Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it…

— Bill Bryson

It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that…

— Bill Bryson

“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

“In essence what relativity says is that space and time are not absolute but relative both to the observer and the thing…

— Bill Bryson

[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on…

— Bill Bryson

“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

“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

“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have…

— Bill Bryson

“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to…

— Bill Bryson

“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

“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

“An expedition was organized at once, but despite the most scrupulous searching no one could find the Cape Arid colony. Subsequent searches…

— Bill Bryson

“As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes…

— Bill Bryson

“This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly…

— Bill Bryson

“Cavendish is a book in himself. Born into a life of sumptuous privilege- his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent-…

— Bill Bryson

“For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).”

— Bill Bryson

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

— Bill Bryson

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.

— Bill Bryson

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

— Bill Bryson

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

— Bill Bryson

You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.

— Bill Bryson

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

— Bill Bryson

“We have been gulled by the ease of air travel and other forms of communication into thinking that the world is not…

— Bill Bryson