Boeing 747 Quotes

• The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.

  Fred Hoyle

  Origin Of Life, Junk, Yards

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• A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

  Fred Hoyle

  Blow, Yards, Pieces

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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• The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Village, Boeing, Aviation

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• Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?

  Zell Miller

  Weather, September 11, Boeing

  "Guns in cockpit bill passes the Senate / Measure would let pilots volunteer to be deputized" by Matthew L. Wald, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2002.

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• The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

  C. Walton Lillehei

  Brother, Heart, Wings

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• However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747

  Richard Dawkins

  Boeing, Designer, Entity

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

  Paul Goldberger

  Strong, Space, Noble

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• The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  New York, Law, Everyday

  "The Physicist". Interview with Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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