"A Short History of Nearly Everything" Quotes

If you are very, very quiet, you can hear the fish coughing.

For most of history, the greatest part of the Earth's surface was quite beyond reach – a limitless expanse of nothing at all.

The Earth is, in all senses of the term, our home. We evolved to live here. It has every comfort and convenience.

We are very good at finding things we are not looking for.

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.

There are three good reasons to believe that the universe is infinite – it is very old, it is expanding and it is flat.

The human body is indeed wondrous. A single human brain has more switches than all the computers and routers and Internet connections on Earth.

The story of evolution is one of the great detective stories of all time – the evidence is there, but no one was there to see it happen.

The Darwinian process of random variation and natural selection has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and needs no purpose.

The universe is not a ho-hum place. It is a fabulously dangerous and unexplored place, full of astonishing and sometimes grisly surprises.