Universe Quotes by Bill Bryson

12 Universe quotes by Bill Bryson

Bryson’s knack for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary makes his 12 Universe‑focused quips a pleasant entry point. Expect humor, a dash of history, and a reminder that even the vast can feel close to home.

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

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It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

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In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

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

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“It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is…

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Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for…

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“We have a universe. It is a place of most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done…

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If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set…

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The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose…

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Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it…

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...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep…

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If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living…

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“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…

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“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…

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“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he…

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As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not…

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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

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“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director…

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I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and…

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“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained…

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If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To…

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