Quote by Clifford A. Pickover

“The core of a neutron star is so dense that a single spoonful of matter from it would weigh more than 500 billion kilograms.”

— Bill Bryson

“Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?”

— Dr. Emmett Brown

“AND God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought ......”

— Lauren Oliver

“We must be equal to the largeness of things.”

— Don DeLillo

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down…

— Douglas Adams

“Matter's basic elements are solid, Completely so, and that they fly through time Invincible, indestructible for ever.”

— Lucretius

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

— Bill Bryson

“It takes a kind of arrogance to think everything in the world can be measured and weighed with our scientific instruments.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“This minimum, the so-called critical mass, turned out to be a surprisingly small 4 kg, about the size of an apple.”

— John Emsley

“That’s how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.”

— Terry Pratchett

“THAT ENERGY AND THAT BIT OF MASS CAME FROM YOU!”

— Lee Vickers

“There are 4 things in the world, ions ,protons, neutrons and morons!”

— Lary A. Sims