„[…] it isn’t possible, […] to draw the solar system to scale. Even if you […] used a really long sheet  of poster paper, you wouldn’t come close. On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with the Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over 300 metres away and Pluto would be two and a half kilometres distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn’t be able to see it anyway). On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be 16,000 kilometres away. Even if you shrank down everything so that Jupiter was as small as the full stop at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger than a molecule, Pluto would still be over 10 metres away.“

(Bill Bryson: „A Short History of Nearly Everything“, Black Swan 2004, Seite 45)

„Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.“

(Bill Bryson: „A Short History of Nearly Everything“, Black Swan 2004, Seite 89)

„‚‘Are you busy?’ enquired Pooh. ‘As busy as a bee,’ said Christopher Robin, ‘which is not really very busy at all since all bees seem to do is buzz.’ ‘And make honey […]‘'“

(David Benedictus: “Return to the Hundred Acre Wood”, Egmont UK 2011, Seite 78)