“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.” SeemsStrongSpaceNobleOur TimeStringsDelicateQuartetsBoeingString QuartetsBoeing 747 Author:Paul Goldberger
“The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.” FirstsHeartBrotherWingsFlightBoeingTransplantsWright BrothersHeart TransplantBoeing 747 Author:C. Walton Lillehei
“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.” IfsWayWould BeLawHoursWalksMillionsFiveNew YorkCostDollarsEverydaySizeMilesEnormousUnprecedentedComputingWalks Of LifeBoeingMoore's LawBoeing 747 Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“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.” MightFormProcessChanceMaterialsEvolutionHigherYardsJunkSweepingBoeingOrigin Of LifeTornadoesEvolution Of LifeJunkyardBoeing 747 Author:Fred Hoyle
“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” UltimateDesignerEntityImprobableBoeingBoeing 747 Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“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?” PleaseLogicWeatherSeptemberSeptember 11BoeingBad WeatherGlocksBoeing 747 Author:Zell Miller
“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.” IfsEnoughWholeHappensUniverseFoundBitsChancePiecesReadyStandingBlowPassagesYardsStanding ThereBoeingTornadoesWhirlwindBits And PiecesDisarrayJunkyardBoeing 747 Book:The Intelligent Universe Source: The Intelligent Universe