Fariz Mammadov

“One of the hardest ideas for humans to accept,” he says, “is that we are not the culmination of anything.”
― 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

“Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had help—perhaps a good deal of help.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything