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title: "136 Billion Years Quotes by 92 authors"
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> [You are the result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success. Act like it!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-memon/you-are-the-result-of-4-billion-years-of-evolutionary-success-act/)

Rachel Memon

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> [Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/life-is-extraordinarily-resilient-it-s-been-around-for-over-a-billion/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

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> [Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-delbruck/any-living-cell-carries-with-it-the-experience-of-a-billion-years-of/)

[Max Delbruck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-delbruck/)

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> [“Yet the biosphere constructs itself, evolves, and has persisted for 3.8 billion years.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-a-kauffman/yet-the-biosphere-constructs-itself-evolves-and-has-persisted-for-3-8/)

[Stuart A. Kauffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-a-kauffman/)

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> [“Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/those-are-some-of-the-things-that-molecules-do-given-four-billion/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [That was five billion years ago. So she's dead now. Five billion years later, my mom's dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-tyler/that-was-five-billion-years-ago-so-she-s-dead-now-five-billion-years/)

[Rose Tyler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-tyler/)

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> [“Our journey begins long ago … four billion years before Christ …”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-brown/our-journey-begins-long-ago-four-billion-years-before-christ/)

[Dan Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-brown/)

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> [The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jastrow/the-critical-first-billion-years-during-which-life-began-are-blank/)

[Robert Jastrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jastrow/)

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> [Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/some-5-billion-years-from-now-there-will-be-a-last-perfect-day-on/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roderick-nash/it-is-really-not-the-wilderness-that-needs-management-it-has-been/)

[Roderick Nash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roderick-nash/)

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> [The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-universe-is-almost-14-billion-years-old-and-wow-life-had-no/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-rees/it-will-not-be-humans-who-watch-the-sun-s-demise-six-billion-years/)

[Martin Rees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-rees/)

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> [The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-ridley/the-genome-is-a-book-that-wrote-itself-continually-adding-deleting/)

[Matt Ridley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-ridley/)

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> [The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-earle/the-observations-that-have-developed-over-the-years-have-given-us/)

[Sylvia Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-earle/)

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> [It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-batchelor/it-has-taken-four-billion-years-of-evolution-to-generate-this-kind-of/)

[Stephen Batchelor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-batchelor/)

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> [It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannes-alfven/it-is-only-myth-that-attempts-to-say-how-the-universe-came-to-be/)

[Hannes Alfven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannes-alfven/)

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> [Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/subhash-kak/interestingly-modern-science-has-estimated-that-the-age-of-the-earth/)

[Subhash Kak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/subhash-kak/)

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> [We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marston-bates/we-have-come-to-look-at-our-planet-as-a-resource-for-our-species/)

[Marston Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marston-bates/)

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> [I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/i-realized-the-universe-is-15-billion-years-old-and-unspeakably/)

[Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/)

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> [The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jastrow/the-record-of-the-rocks-contains-very-little-other-than-bacteria-and/)

[Robert Jastrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jastrow/)

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> [After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-polkinghorne/after-all-the-universe-required-ten-billion-years-of-evolution-before/)

[John Polkinghorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-polkinghorne/)

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> [“nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/nearly-fourteen-billion-years-ago-all-the-space-and-all-the-matter/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [“belief, by its very nature, is exclusive. If The earth is more than four billion years old is true, then the claim,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-werther/belief-by-its-very-nature-is-exclusive-if-the-earth-is-more-than-four/)

[David Werther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-werther/)

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> [No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sid-meier/no-longer-mere-earthbeings-and-planetbeings-are-we-but-bright/)

[Sid Meier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sid-meier/)

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> [“When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-monod/when-one-ponders-on-the-tremendous-journey-of-evolution-over-the-past/)

[Jacques Monod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-monod/)

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> [The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-sophia-kasl/the-planet-earth-has-a-life-span-of-eight-billion-years-give-or-take/)

[Charlotte Sophia Kasl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-sophia-kasl/)

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> [If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janine-benyus/if-the-age-of-the-earth-were-a-calendar-year-and-today-were-a-breath/)

[Janine Benyus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janine-benyus/)

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> [“In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-uris/in-god-s-scheme-what-is-a-few-billion-years-here-and-there-perhaps/)

[Leon Uris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-uris/)

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> [“In all probability there is an infinite variety of mental states that no Sapiens, bat or dinosaur ever experienced in 4 billion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/in-all-probability-there-is-an-infinite-variety-of-mental-states-that/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-earle/this-is-a-living-planet-look-around-mars-venus-jupiter-look-beyond/)

[Sylvia Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-earle/)

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> [In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-m-krauss/in-5-billion-years-the-expansion-of-the-universe-will-have-progressed/)

[Lawrence M. Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-m-krauss/)

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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-shadyac/we-re-a-young-species-we-re-only-175-000-years-old-on-the/)

[Tom Shadyac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-shadyac/)

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> [“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-anderson-thomson-jr/there-is-a-massive-irreconcilable-conflict-between-science-and/)

J. Anderson Thomson Jr

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> [“For the first billion years, the universe continued to expand and cool as matter gravitated into the massive concentrations we call galaxies.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/for-the-first-billion-years-the-universe-continued-to-expand-and-cool/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-gravitational-waves-of-the-first-detection-were-generated-by-a/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-molyneux/we-have-won-the-time-lottery-of-the-last-4-billion-years/)

[Stefan Molyneux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-molyneux/)

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> [An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-nachmanovitch/an-improviser-does-not-operate-from-a-formless-vacuum-but-from-three/)

[Stephen Nachmanovitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-nachmanovitch/)

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> [Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-mcneely/every-time-we-lose-a-species-webreak-a-life-chain-which-has-evolved/)

Jeff McNeely

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> [If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-swimme/if-you-let-hydrogen-gas-alone-for-13-billion-years-it-will-become/)

[Brian Swimme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-swimme/)

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> [Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-swimme/four-billion-years-ago-the-planet-earth-was-molten-rock-now-it-sings/)

[Brian Swimme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-swimme/)

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                        "text": "“In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to.”",
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                        "text": "“In all probability there is an infinite variety of mental states that no Sapiens, bat or dinosaur ever experienced in 4 billion years of terrestrial evolution, because they did not have the necessary faculties. In the future, however, powerful drugs, genetic engineering, electronic helmets and direct brain–computer interfaces may open passages to these places. Just as Columbus and Magellan sailed beyond the horizon to explore new islands and unknown continents, so we may one day embark for the antipodes of the mind.”",
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                        "text": "This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that works, that is just right for the likes of us? It has not happened just instantly. It is vulnerable to our actions. But it's the result of four and a half billion years of evolution, of change over time. And it changes every day, all the time. It would be in our interest to try to maintain a certain level of stability that has enabled us to prosper, to not wreck the very systems that give us life.",
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                        "text": "In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe…We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.",
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                        "text": "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. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.",
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                        "text": "“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. We know the origins of the universe, the physics of the big bang and how the basic chemical elements formed in supernovas. We know that life on this planet originated about 4 billion years ago, and we are all descendants of that original replicating molecule. Thanks to Darwin we know that natural selection is the only workable explanation for the design and variety of all life on this planet. Paleoanthropologists and geneticists have reconstructed much of the human tree of life. We are risen apes, not fallen angels. We are the most successful and last surviving African hominid. Every single person on this Earth, all 7 billion of us, arose 50,000 years ago from small bands of African hunter-gatherers, a total population of somewhere between 600 and 2,000 individuals.”",
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                        "text": "“For the first billion years, the universe continued to expand and cool as matter gravitated into the massive concentrations we call galaxies. Nearly a hundred billion of them formed, each containing hundreds of billions of stars that undergo thermonuclear fusion in their cores. Those stars with more than about ten times the mass of the Sun achieve sufficient pressure and temperature in their cores to manufacture dozens of elements heavier than hydrogen, including those that compose planets and whatever life may thrive upon them. These elements would be stunningly useless were they to remain where they formed. But high-mass stars fortuitously explode, scattering their chemically enriched guts throughout the galaxy. After nine billion years of such enrichment, in an undistinguished part of the universe (the outskirts of the Virgo Supercluster) in an undistinguished galaxy (the Milky Way) in an undistinguished region (the Orion Arm), an undistinguished star (the Sun) was born. The”",
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