Quadrillion Quotes

#1. Your 40 trillion cells contain at least a quadrillion mitochondria, with a combined convoluted surface area of about 14,000 square metres; about four football fields.

Nick Lane

#2. Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?

Gary Gygax

#3. The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Computations using the science of probability on just 8 of these prophecies show the chance that someone could have fulfilled all 8 prophecies is 10 (to the 17th power), or 1 in 100 quadrillion.

Fritz Ridenour

#4. All the while your brain is performing up to ten quadrillion calculations per second using only ten watts of power.5 A computer would require a gigawatt of power produced by a nuclear power plant to pull off the same performance.

Mark Batterson

#5. Every human body consists of about 10 quadrillion cells, but about 100 quadrillion bacterial cells. They are, in short, a big part of us. From the bacteria's point of view, of course, we are a rather small part of them.

Bill Bryson

#6. Well, set the monster free ... he's begun his hymn, because he finds it all so easy ... but I'd give a quadrillion quadrillion for two seconds of joy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?

Jared Brock

#8. It's easy to see other women as enemies. But we're the only real allies we've got.

Leah Raeder

#9. I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was 'excuse me'.

Bauvard

#10. ( ... ) rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.

Noam Chomsky

#11. I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

Bill Watterson

#12. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

Theobald Of Bec

#13. Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series)

K.K. Allen