The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose — 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
In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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
“It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose… — 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… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep… — 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
