Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

— Bill Bryson

My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?

— Bill Bryson

“The current best estimate for the Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, a difference of only about 1 per cent from…

— Bill Bryson

“What if we are all getting stupid at more or less the same rate and we don’t realize it because we are…

— Bill Bryson

“He had a curiously stunted sense of humor and loved practical jokes that veered dangerously close to cruelty. Once on a hot…

— Bill Bryson

“They determined, for instance, that a rusting object doesn’t lose weight, as everyone had long assumed, but gains weight – an extraordinary…

— Bill Bryson

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

— Bill Bryson

And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside…

— Bill Bryson

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

— Bill Bryson

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far…

— Bill Bryson

“It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gravity. Remove a…

— Bill Bryson

“Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep.”

— Bill Bryson

“When you grow up in middle America you are inculcated from the earliest age with the belief - no, the understanding -…

— Bill Bryson

“(When the company was finally broken up in the 1980s to satisfy antitrust regulators, it was worth more than the combined worth…

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“I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled…

— Bill Bryson

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

— Bill Bryson

“On this scale, according to John McPhee in Basin and Range, the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist…

— 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

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

— Bill Bryson

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and…

— Bill Bryson

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of…

— Bill Bryson

“He was taken to St. Lawrence Hospital and died the next day. He never regained consciousness.”

— Bill Bryson

“Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.”

— Bill Bryson

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

— Bill Bryson

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

— Bill Bryson