You are the result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success. Act like it! — Rachel Memon Copy Share Image
Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.” — Stuart A. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
That was five billion years ago. So she's dead now. Five billion years later, my mom's dead. — Rose Tyler Copy Share Image
The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history. — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that… — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also… — Moby Copy Share Image
The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“belief, by its very nature, is exclusive. If The earth is more than four billion years old is true, then the claim,… — David Werther Copy Share Image
No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out… — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
“When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
“In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“In all probability there is an infinite variety of mental states that no Sapiens, bat or dinosaur ever experienced in 4 billion… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old.… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
“For the first billion years, the universe continued to expand and cool as matter gravitated into the massive concentrations we call galaxies.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years. — Jeff McNeely Copy Share Image
If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera! — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
