Footnotes Quote by Will Cuppy

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

— Mary E. Pearson

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

— Martin Rees

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

— Dave Barry

And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? an ironic way to die.

— Bo Burnham

“The Giant Grotfly is much bigger than a normal Grotfly, but still smaller than a housefly”

— Sprogling

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

— Rick Yancey

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

— Diane Ackerman

For how tiny the world, This ant's egg-and the sky!

— Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

— Elias Canetti

I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I…

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

— John Emsley

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

— Stanley Bing