Quotes by Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

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Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
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 attain a — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him w — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
We know amazingly little about what happens beneath our feet. It is fairly remarkable to think that Ford has been buildi — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would p — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing acros — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen. — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious. — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person go — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly looking — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bipedalism is a demanding and risky strategy. It means refashioning the pelvis into a full load-bearing instrument. To p — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder. — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and t — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted fo — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything